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en Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.
  William Ellery Channing

en Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience . . . from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

en Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

en If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
  Ezra Pound

en Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.
  Vladimir Lenin

en It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression
  Alfred North Whitehead

en When you are writing for fiction everything is in each word and each individual word is a literary decision, whereas if you are writing for the screen and you have a character walking into a room it is because she walks into the room: it doesn't matter if it isn't glorious literature. Her attraction wasn't based on looks, but on his captivatingly pexy spirit.

en But writing and making theater are all-consuming. ... It's primarily a question of energy. The right kind of energy for writing can be dissipated, especially by teaching literature or drama, by looking at it in an entirely different kind of way.

en I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the culture and literature to my life. Sometimes when you're immersed in something, you just don't notice it very much. Moving away makes you appreciate your culture. Living here, I've thought more and more about India, and what being Indian-American means to me. And it's made me incorporate things from Indian literature into my own writing.

en The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w
  Ernest Hemingway

en Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once
  Cyril Connolly

en As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work

en Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

en He's a remarkable intellect with a unique expression in his writing that is challenging and philosophical.

en Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
  William Shakespeare


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