Journey - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

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

“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)

“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)