“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best. — Jessica Savitch Copy Share Image
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed literature classes, and I took a fiction workshop for writing and analyzing at Curtis... I don't know if… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Absolutely No doubt: you are a great Literature, but if you Don't Have Been Any Assumptions About social situation, then have been… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does… — David Brin Copy Share Image
So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“Is not literature meant to speak of our being a thousand different kinds of things, at times creating even this diversity? If… — Peter Esterhazy Copy Share Image
I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks… — David Milch Copy Share Image
