Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature? — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“We have evolved a new cosmogony of literature, Boris and I. It is to be a new Bible - The Last Book.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don't speak our language, these folks coming from… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.” — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon’s personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas… — Panio Gianopoulos Copy Share Image
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point… — Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives Copy Share Image
When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's… — Theodore Austin-Sparks Copy Share Image
