Europe is a rapidly changing place, on every level. Immigration, post-communist transitions, the unification, steady presence of war and conflict, the inescapable… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“NOTHING I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Literature and the other arts play with pattern - our brains understand our world by recognizing patterns - and with possibility. The… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“Books and bookcases cropping up in stuff that I've written means that they have to be reproduced on stage or on film.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Read good writing, and don’t live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting… — Stacey D'Erasmo Copy Share Image
The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Dad?" But he's still looking out the window, not at me. I walk over and lean my head against his shoulder. His… — Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources… — David Duke Copy Share Image
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil”… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Literature gives us models of living human beings who may not agree with us and even be our enemies. D. H. Lawrence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
It was just such a complete shock to turn on the news one day and see someone that you know, someone you… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
“In my early teens, I heard about Naked Lunch and its mutating typewriters and talking cockroaches. While I would hardly classify its… — Peter Dubé Copy Share Image
This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher: to share in grand conversations about books,… — Jeffrey D Wilhelm Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a… — John Green Copy Share Image
The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
“O, great wise man,' she said, 'I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
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