I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
“C. S. Lewis said it this way: “In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. . .… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
“It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a… — Janet Beizer Copy Share Image
On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to… — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there… — James Payn Copy Share Image
It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Calcutta is a very culturally-forward city. People encourage art, music, literature and I just feel like that's a city that looks for… — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Unjustified ambition kills value, Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air. If there is nothing else, it… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs. — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
“if philosophy is mountain climbing then literature is an anti-gravity parade I love thee like a leper colony loves to make a… — Carl-John X Veraja Copy Share Image
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. — John Updike Copy Share Image
In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
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