In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not… — Mario Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Almost everything I've learned about journalism has been from other friends who are journalists, taking advantage of the money I hope they… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. You… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
