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When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

Frederick Sanger

Beauty

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

Ted Rall

Literature

Prose

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Raymond Queneau

Literature

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Manuel Puig

Literature

Tardiness

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

Manuel Puig

First

Literature

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

Manuel Puig

Decision

Literature

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

Jerry Pournelle

Literary

Literature

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

Ezra Pound

Literature

Nation

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.