If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
“That you are a born again Christian does not mean you will automatically succeed except you follow God's principles. Never forget faith… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning… — W.K. Wimsatt Copy Share Image
Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I… — Brendan Coyle Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
“Ideally, art would give us the answers that other people don't. This might even be one of the main points of literature:… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and… — George Pólya Copy Share Image
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“En mi época no había Best-Sellers y no podíamos prostituírnos. No había quien comprara nuestra prostitución.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
