Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Yet, the man never goes slow! Feted against all the odds. How? Nobody knows. Undeterred, unabated, yet uncharted he goes...” — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists.… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet… — Andrew Denton Copy Share Image
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it, is in the first place 'literary', which is to say personal and passionate. It… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image