Quotes About 20th Century Literature

#1. Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

Milan Kundera

#2. Very often people give to others to control them and dominant them.

Frederick Lenz

#3. The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#4. An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

Eleanor Catton

#5. If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

Amanda Peet

#6. I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.

Colin Meloy

#7. Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

Joel Osteen

#8. I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

Tom Wolfe

#9. I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

Gelsey Kirkland

#10. Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

J.G. Ballard

#11. I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

John Cusack