Quotes About Canadian Literature

#1. I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

George Woodcock

#2. The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

Margaret Atwood

#3. I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.

Dan John

#4. We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.

J.C. Villamere

#5. When U.S. prisoners were killed, it was "murder in flagrant disregard of the Geneva Conventions." But when Americans murdered Others, "they had it coming to them.

James D. Bradley

#6. The moon twangs its silver strings;
The river swoons into town;
The wind beds down in the pines,
Covers itself with stars.

George Elliott Clarke

#7. In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,
Malnourished poems that professors love;
The bad grammar and dirty words that catch
In the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.
Pablo, your words are rain I run through,
Grass I sleep in.

George Elliott Clarke

#8. All the things she couldn't say, the things no one wanted to hear.

Spencer Gordon

#9. OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.

Sam Yagan

#10. But maybe when you never say a thing, your thoughts spread like mould.

Tamara Faith Berger

#11. Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

Bob Garfield

#12. The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule.

Mordecai Richler

#13. That he is, darling.That he is. Now straighten up, and put on a pretty smile. No man wants to be denied the prettiest grin he could ever come across.

Sai Marie Johnson

#14. Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

Roger Ebert

#15. I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

Susanna Clarke

#16. Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Andre Gide

#17. Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

Jerry Seinfeld

#18. And on every rooftop stood unimaginably tall television antennae. These silver feelers groped about in the air, in defiance of the mountains that formed a backdrop to the town.

Haruki Murakami

#19. Men must sweat to attain virtue.

Hesiod

#20. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.

Lynn Coady