The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural… — William James Copy Share Image
“One’s like a closed bud, and most of what one reads and does has no effect at all; but there are certain… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
The literature is like that - they [unions] are constantly talking about the masses, the danger they pose, and how to control… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
“So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
“I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a… — Martin Shubik Copy Share Image
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage,… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across -… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic,… — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“As more and more norms disappear from social praxis, literature faces ever-growing difficulties. Its predicament is beginning to resemble that of a… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised -… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus… — Ovid Copy Share Image
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