Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to… — Flea Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, but when I look back I see that the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
“There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other… — William Empson Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I grew up in Banaras on Kabir and other Hindi poets and then I got introduced to Faiz, Hasrat Mohani, Allama Iqbal… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
