“If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.” — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
“The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.” — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical. — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Irony alone is damning. The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.” — Anne Garréta Copy Share Image
“Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I think 'The Handmaid's Tale' always had that power since it was written over 30 years ago. This extraordinary piece of feminist… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
“English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound… — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“A group of ten prisoners from Dachau, I was with them, we hid in the forest to wait for the Americans. The… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“Yet Katie held fast to the dream that perhaps there were men in the world who appreciated good women - men capable… — Marcia Lynn McClure Copy Share Image
“Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality ... by the fact… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to… — Steve Kerr Copy Share Image
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