If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Literatura e un Turn Babel de hartie;fiecare carte o treapta,fiecare biblioteca un etaj.Numai ca literatura are o tinta mai modesta,dar si mai… — Andrei Pleşu Copy Share Image
Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“In a sense, Joyce was Beckett's Don Quixote, and Beckett was his Sancho Panza. Joyce aspired to the One; Beckett encapsulated the… — Lois Gordon Copy Share Image
Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
To give subjectivity to the Dozier School boys is fundamentally mind-blowing. In literature, you're allowed to write from the inside, but at… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect;… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between imaginative literature and other sorts of intellectual endeavor?" " Ones about masturbation and the other's about something… — Csb Copy Share Image
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Cinematically, anything like 'Khawto' in Bengali cinema hasn't happened. Yes, you get such films in Hollywood, a few in Bombay. In Bengali… — Prosenjit Chatterjee Copy Share Image
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I loved school, although I got bored very easily. I liked literature. I loved philosophy. I didn't like math. I was good… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
