Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
My area of research is something that in all fairness has no practical usability whatsoever and the thing is I'm often asked… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I work from the body - I try to develop a language of the body. I've invented a term I call "corporeal… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the… — Michael Jensen Copy Share Image
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split… — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“How Are We to Live is a collection of short stories, not a novel. This in itself is a disappointment. It seems… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne,… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I don't take lessons in art. It all comes from the heart, and sure I'd love to study art! In school I… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
“God really must have had a sense of humor, because if I had to name my biggest turn-on, it was literature. And… — Kody Keplinger Copy Share Image
We have literature indicating that overwhelmingly, health is influenced by a very short list of modifiable behaviors topped by three: tobacco use,… — David Katz Copy Share Image
“In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Their ghosts are gagged, their books are library flotsam, Some of their names - not all - we learnt in school But,… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“Я помню чудное мгновенье: Передо мной явилась ты, Как мимолётное виденье, Как гений чистой красоты... I still recall the wondrous moment When you appeared before my eyes, Just like a fleeting apparition, Just like pure beauty's distillation...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,… — James Emanuel Copy Share Image
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth… Dramabegins where there's freedom of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James Copy Share Image
“Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to this that those epithets were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
