writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
“You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“Everyone thought she was so confident and together, but that was really a mask she wore to protect herself. The old adage… — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
“literature, in fact, had been concerned with virtues and vices of a perfectly healthy sort, the regular functioning of brains of a… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family,… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“So I recommend reading literature, such as the inspiring biography of Anwar Sadat, In Search of Identity, and seeing movies like Chariots… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Regency literature was too coal-y for me, too long-winded and describey. I preferred modern books where you had to read other books… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Much as there are things about our own life stories that we can learn only from the systematic study of our dreams,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums,… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
Sarah Phelps is such an incredibly detailed writer. She's famous for bringing literature to life, like Dickens and Agatha Christie. — Sarah Greene Copy Share Image
Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
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