A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own… — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently go along with our lives. We know exactly one… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history,… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women.… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of… — William James Copy Share Image
“I have always lusted after a sepia-toned library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and a sliding ladder. I fantasie about Tennessee Williams' types of… — Amy Mowafi Copy Share Image
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death,… — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
“The stories surrounding eating durians remind us that literature should incorporate low culture, bringing it closer to lived reality. These legends come… — Wong Yoon Wah Copy Share Image
I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to understand something I couldn't articulate. It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a fluttering, a kind of… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
“Practical advice.—People who read much must always keep it in mind that life is one thing, literature another. Not that authors invariably… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
![“It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9d8/christopher-hitchens-117_bullying_it-defending-salmon-rushdie-was-if-i-can_1912195.jpg)
