Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment… — William James Copy Share Image
It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors' school shows. I got… — Craig Zadan Copy Share Image
I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
To give subjectivity to the Dozier School boys is fundamentally mind-blowing. In literature, you're allowed to write from the inside, but at… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family,… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
