Traditional Literature Quotes

The destruction of Chinese traditional culture didn't start in 1949. It started long before that, with the succession of revolutions. It was particularly bad during the Cultural Revolution, the destruction of traditional Chinese culture.

I’m rather apt to read old books than new.

I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

No doubt, clinical practice in alleviating malaria symptoms utilizing Qinghao - inherited from traditional Chinese medical literature - provided some useful information leading to the discovery of artemisinin.

One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again.

For us Icelanders, the Sagas are like the Bible, only much better.

It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical literary masterpieces of the past, and there is no shortage of people who believe that what little they're required to learn in school is still too much.

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

If you're looking for a book that's not been influenced by 21st century popular culture and that's guaranteed to be a good read because it's stood the test of time, you can't go wrong with the classics.

I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature.

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.

No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.

Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life and the larger world meet.

My father would read me Page Six instead of, like, kids' stories.

In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.