I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
Literature overtakes history for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war literature was careful not to do the same which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
In England literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
I grew up in an non-athletic family where my parents were interested in music in literature in education and art.
Unfortunately the elimination of incentives such as parole good time credits and funding for college courses means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy education treatment and other development programs.
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education urban education women and children's issues and literacy.
For this reason to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
In my home State of Louisiana several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita literally dozens across the entire State.
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
The question is will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education medicine and law in journalism literature and art.
More particularly having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there and it will last forever.
To be successful in life what you need is education not literacy and degrees.
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education healthcare and retirement.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people unable to go to school were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.