Literature Analysis Quotes

All literature is gossip.

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

I studied Shakespeare in college, but not theatrically, more in terms of literature, and then I kind of took a break from it. Now there's resurgence in my appreciation for him. It's amazing: there are so many book titles and song titles that come just from lines that he wrote.

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school.

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

Literature more often tells the story of impulses we don't act on than of ones we do. I could joke about the Cain and Abel story with my brother without expecting him to be worried, though it's always possible he was more anxious than he let on.

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.

I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.