I've been acting for years and years, at prep school - school plays, that kind of thing. That was always very high… — James Callis Copy Share Image
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that the performance of a raag resembles a novel - or at least the kind of novel I'm attempting… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?"… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“...begged them as we read our literary texts, only to listen. To wrench open - it takes an effort of will -… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
"Someone": I understood that this was a character who in her own life her voice hadn't much been heard and in literature… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
We've come a long way since 'Beowulf.' In the twentieth century, a strain in children's and YA literature offered the humorously conceived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense?… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't… — Phillip Hoose Copy Share Image
“Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“I was driven less by achievement than by trying to understand, in earnest: What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of dystopian literature tends to be really moralizing and just doesn't tend to give credence to the… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If you can imagine the story of the world as a giant movie, to not have some understanding of the Bible -… — Steve Green Copy Share Image
“They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! The people in this book died over sixty years ago, in the middle… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
