And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that… — Albert Maltz Copy Share Image
I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers.… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do,… — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Whether or not the fame of Gilgamesh of Uruk had reached the Aegean – and the idea is attractive – there can… — N.K. Sandars Copy Share Image
Over and over again women and men ... come to me saying, I don't know enough to write a book for adults,… — Mabel Robinson Copy Share Image
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach;… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents- were they the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity. — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
“With the windows in his top of the range Audi firmly in place we slowly baked ourselves and chatted over why my… — David Louden Copy Share Image
Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be… — Sjon Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
