“Few would have seen Solomon and realised they were looking at one of wartime London’s top gangsters. With his receding hairline, thick-lenses… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Thinking positive about your problems is a safe way to get relief from worry. Acknowledge that there is something within you which… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has… — Anne Fausto-Sterling Copy Share Image
“I see the process of reaching out, sharing yourself, communicating, establishing contact between two people as similar to, if not the same… — Karina Szczurek Copy Share Image
Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I wanted to talk about certain things in a way that I hadn't seen them talked about. There is vast literature about… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The Invisible Writer (Sonnet 2654) When I unveil a new book cover, you'd naturally assume that I know what I'm gonna write,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I lived and worked in photography in Hale County, Alabama for almost 15 years. Sometimes there I feel like I have no… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
“My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The switch that I'd like to throw on is the one that says, "Look, you're a human being whose mind is every… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils… — William James Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Books are too personal as objects to be displayed, in case a potential buyer is put off by your taste for Nietzsche… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
“Academic criticism often focuses on pleasing the examiners for various purposes. It lacks the aesthetic design, the nobility of purpose and the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“On THE AMBER SPYGLASS: "If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the… — Willigis Jager Copy Share Image
“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
“We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between… — Cathy Caruth Copy Share Image
“That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There's not a… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War in Africa is hardly a new phenomenon, nor are voices telling its stories of terror and triumph. Yet some of the… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she… — John Green Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
“If you read Rite of Passage and enjoy yourself, I couldn't be more pleased. I hope it gets you of. On the… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Have you ever reached to a point where you asked God if the assignment is really from Him. In your account you… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
