“Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature — George Ade Copy Share Image
Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature. — Tu Youyou Copy Share Image
It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or… — Tom Cain Copy Share Image
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
When it comes to music, movies, literature, paintings, and even Bikram yoga, it's pretty easy to have an opinion about whether something… — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you -… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it… — Nick Hornby (Author Copy Share Image
