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«The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.»
Author: John Gregory Dunne
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
constricted, fetus, fetuses, strangling, umbilical, umbilical cord
«The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean»
«The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.»
«The Bible is literature, not dogma.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Religion
| Keywords:
dogma
«The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Writing
| Keywords:
affect, difficulty, literature, precisely, reader
«The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
briar, briars, fades, fairy, landscapes, nearer, thorns
«The crown of literature is poetry.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Poetry
| Keywords:
crown, literature, The Crown
«The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
device, essay, Essays, literary, literary device
«The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Nations
| Keywords:
decline, indicated, indicates, indicating, literature, The Decline
«The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Journalism,
Literature
| Keywords:
journalism, unreadable
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