“In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.” — John Middleton Murry Copy Share Image
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Kafka’s The Castle came to mind, a book I had not read but that fell into that category of literature that culture… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Abdur Rab offers a comprehensive vision of Islam using the Quran as his sole religious textual source. He intentionally avoids the hadith… — Jeffrey Lang Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“History gives us the facts, sort of, but from literary works we can learn what the past smelled like, sounded like, and… — Scott Herring Copy Share Image
My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
