The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different, — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies. — Dawn Angelique Copy Share Image
The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time. Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.” — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Already the people murmur that I am your enemy because they say that in verse I give the world your me. They… — Julia de Burgos Jack Agüero Translator Copy Share Image
In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
