Bernt Carlsson - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

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

“In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)