[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through… — Lenora Champagne Copy Share Image
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums -… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything… — Georgia King Copy Share Image
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“A shadow moved in the street below and my mind became focused on the movement. This shadow caught my attention because it… — Eli Wilde Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
When I published my first work, I thought I would never be able to go back to Lebanon. I thought they'd arrest… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled down the center… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature,… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“Smoke wafts and circles copiously, in sunlight; he slowly burns under her gaze. Subdued by her desire, the zealot shows again; a… — Zavare Zantalus Copy Share Image
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic… — Taron Egerton Copy Share Image
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the… — William F. Albright Copy Share Image
Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date… — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
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