If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
“When you write a story, don't just write it - live it; When putting words into the mouth of a protagonist (or… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls… Most of us assume there is something goodin every… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
German has always felt the language that I come back to. It's given a very hard time by most people for being… — Susie Dent 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
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Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Elgin himself looked ten years younger, now that he’d cast the die, but I thought exuberance had got the better of him… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
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I loved Rushmore. I loved the script. I mean, that is what drew me to it, just the actual piece of literature… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
“This isn’t the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The most important thing [anarchists] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests… — Morton Ann Gernsbacher Copy Share Image
One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
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I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the… — Achmat Dangor Copy Share Image
I know what I as an editor respond to is a voice. A voice is not just a stylistic thing, but it… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
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