The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
literature
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.
I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
literature invention
All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.
All literature is political.
All literature is gossip.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
literature paradise
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Reverence is fatal to literature.
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
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