“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.” — John Sayles Copy Share Image
We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I write to teach myself, explore myself, inspire myself (in which I always fail), analyze myself, clear myself (in how much deep… — Ovais Khalid Copy Share Image
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
“Though a work of literature can be read in a number of ways, this number is finite and can be arranged in… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh, how much… — Paula Gruben Copy Share Image
Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
