Term to Maxim

It's not real, but it can be true

Literature speaks with a forked tongue

Reading literature and understanding literature are two different things

The classic is the gold standard of literature—but all that glistens is not classic

What a work of literature means is not always what the author means it to mean

Feel free to like or dislike—but don't stop there

Don't tell me a S____: N______ me a N_______

If they are so great, why don't we do them any more?

Poetry sings

Terrify us, please!

It's impossible—but what option do we have?

Culture is to society what honey is to the bee-hive

Not where the author, but the author's work comes from

The foundations of literature are not literary

The best that has been thought and written. Read it!

Tell me a story—just like the last story

Literature loves the finishing touch

It's a battlefield

Literature is harder to keep hold of than a piece of wet soap

I'll make my own mind up, thank you very much

Everyone may have one, but a good _____ is very hard to come by

Keeps the readers on their toes

The camera may never lie. Literature does. And cleverly

A picture is worth a thousands words—but usually doesn't require as many

The reader who reads most gets most

Literature kicks

You have to work with what you've got

Nothing new under the literary sun

Where detail is concerned, enough is a feast

Meaning is conferred by social structures

Meaning is always deferred

Literature is appreciated; a text is studied

There's no way out

Make it new, then make it newer. Differently

Not Babel but literature

Sweat the historical details

The empire strikes back

Signification makes meaning

It's the readers who matter

There is a "female" literature

Published literature is private property

It's a moving target. And the law is never quick on the draw

Literature can be as realistic as it likes—but not with real living people

Natural selection forms new species

Watch your mouth

Sometimes literature is just so much fiction

The thing about ghosts is that you can't see them

You can publish on the web what you can't print on the page

Media maketh literature

What you are reading may not be a book, but a coffin