Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists. — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.” — David Shields Copy Share Image
“Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd, Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind” — John Dryden Copy Share Image
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance,… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
“One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“That cloak of love you were wearing—he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I like poetry, but honestly, I like dramatic literature more. If I had to pick between Rumi and Dostoevsky, I would pick… — Ramin Bahrani Copy Share Image
“But I'll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction… — Ron Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings, outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses strongly present… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
