This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art". — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other” — Lance Conrad Copy Share Image
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now.… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“Music is the highest art, no question. But literature is a friendlier one. It depends on us more, bores us more quickly,… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
“Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional… — David Means Copy Share Image
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
