Quotes About Elements Of Literature

#1. I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.

Liam Neeson

#2. Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

Naguib Mahfouz

#3. I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.

Linda Blair

#4. My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#5. In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

Julian Barnes

#6. I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Life is like a game, there could be many players. If you don't play with them, they'll play with you.

Adolf Hitler

#8. Our world is becoming more busy and noisy.
We are pushing silence out of our lives at a rate that suggests a fear of what it has to say to us about ourselves.

John O'Donohue

#9. Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

Connie Willis

#10. The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient ... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature

Henry Seidel Canby

#11. Spoken like a Protestant.

Thomas Harris

#12. I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

Harvey Pekar

#13. Another reason she was wary around him was that he was simply too bloody damned clever. Frantically

Amanda Quick

#14. Someone who might-who did understand what it was like to be crippled at your very core, someone who was still climbing inch by inch out of that abyss.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. Shit!' cried the king, and 40 thousand stooped and strained.

Robert Leland Taylor

#16. I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

Cristina Henriquez

#17. I don't have spare time.

Bryan Cranston

#18. Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Fay Weldon

#19. I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

Shu Qi

#20. That is its sole law: everything has to submit to form. If any of literature's other elements are stronger than form, such as style, plot, theme, if any of these take control over form, the result is poor. That is why writers with a strong style often write poor books.

Karl Ove Knausgard