“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
With loves light wings did I o'perch this walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out. - Romeo — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“You don’t see the point of English literature?’ ‘I don’t see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
My comic timing is completely based on Pu La's literature, his style of writing and the wittiness between the lines. — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world? — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them. — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
“I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
