Ensemble Claude-Gervaise - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That’s what their substance is.”
—Jonathan Miller (b. 1936)

“This is not “writing” at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)