Literature
See also: Wikiquote: List of misquotations- The character Sherlock Holmes never used the phrase: "Elementary, my dear Watson" in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. However, he does say, "my dear Watson" then shortly (to Watson) "Elementary" during a conversation, and similar phrases at other times. The first use of the phrase was in the 1929 film "The Return of Sherlock Holmes."
- Frankenstein was not the name of the monster in the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, rather it was the surname of the monster's creator Victor Frankenstein. The monster is instead called Frankenstein's monster. Also in the novel Frankenstein was a medical student, not a doctor as he is often portrayed.
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“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and given them an idea of something better. A better state of one’s feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one’s self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)