The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Films gave me name, fame and money. But my heart always yearned for literature. — Tanikella Bharani Copy Share Image
There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper,… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
