The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published.… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.” — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence… — David Schneider Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the… — William James Copy Share Image
I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense)… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The best books — like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games — can challenge us and… — Geoffrey Reiter Copy Share Image
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Like a tree or a river, a story can have many branches or tributaries—but its power comes from the root, the origin… — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
