Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“The things you are looking for, Montag, are in the world but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Find anything about the Blade?” Billy let out an explosive sigh and creaked back in his chair, hands folded behind his head.… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
“Owe ye everything, son. Ye need or want anything, ye just ask." Nox earns a point in my dad's book when he… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Just as abruptly, he'd become a father. While preparing the book for publication, he'd been dating a woman named Sarah Coowe, an… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“She asked her parents to buy him the books she’d been read by her first teachers, Peter Rabbit and Frog and Toad.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Everywhere you go you find readers who are interested, even though the story takes place here in this very neighborhood. It doesn't… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“literature enlarges our world of experience to include both more of the physical world and things not yet imagined, giving the “actual… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“I feel like a little kid in a toy shop. All those books. I've always wanted to be a writer, but before… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to… — Peter Gizzi Copy Share Image
The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room.… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When historians write the last pages of their books, and the producers of history documentaries sit down to edit the final minutes… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — John Green Copy Share Image
My personal relationship with Ali began in 1988, when we met in New York to explore the possibility of my writing the… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
“ Pictures are windows to any lands, But a book is a door that ready stands To him who will open and… — Annette Wynne Copy Share Image
I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a… — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
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