My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.” — Adam Phillips Going Sane Copy Share Image
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“Every word I write is a defiance of despair, every idea is testament to life out loud.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize… — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“There has never been any art or literature without drink and there never will be…Unless something is done about the matter [prohibition]… — Joseph Pennell Copy Share Image
“Death has been said to be the leveller in that it does not recognize one’s class, race, ethnicity or nationality. Death does… — Remi Akujobi Copy Share Image
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
“Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“He saw the reflection of her face in a compact mirror as she painted on her re lips. She did it with… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Book critics certainly are judges who wield a tremendous amount of power in terms of whether or not a book will reach… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image