All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Whenever it is inspired by literature a film is elevated and the audience connects. — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
American students arrive at college knowing almost nothing about history, literature, art, or philosophy. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure,… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even… — William Thomas Beckford Copy Share Image
“You are not to take it, if you please, as the saying of an ignorant man, when I express my opinion that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Zam watched as the creature began to fade, until it disappeared altogether and all that remained was his own reflection in the… — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues. — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world. — Frederick Crews Copy Share Image
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO” — Anthony Antek Copy Share Image
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.” — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
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