Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I was far away from Marathi literature, theatre, arts, everything. I was a late entrant to it. — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age. — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach;… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
“I find it sad that more Christian literature does not address miracles, and the possibility of demons in our midst. Jesus performed… — D.L. Koontz Copy Share Image
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
“Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your… — Jon Gresham Copy Share Image
