Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Kafka’s The Castle came to mind, a book I had not read but that fell into that category of literature that culture… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the… — Aurel Stein Copy Share Image
“His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature is as follows: All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history,… — Clement Mok Copy Share Image
Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been a rower of two boats. I have been here physically and somewhere else mentally. My existence… — Sadia Hakim Copy Share Image
I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes,… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
“It’s not lit, it’s literature. Lit is something a book can be, after you’ve decided to burn it. (I suggest you start… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think 'The Handmaid's Tale' always had that power since it was written over 30 years ago. This extraordinary piece of feminist… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
