Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has… — Judy Delton Copy Share Image
“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good… — James Kisner Copy Share Image
Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“...begged them as we read our literary texts, only to listen. To wrench open - it takes an effort of will -… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
"Someone": I understood that this was a character who in her own life her voice hadn't much been heard and in literature… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We've come a long way since 'Beowulf.' In the twentieth century, a strain in children's and YA literature offered the humorously conceived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. — Ray Bradbury 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 know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Films gave me name, fame and money. But my heart always yearned for literature. — Tanikella Bharani 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
“Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.” — Jennie Chancey Copy Share Image
To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness. — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.” — Shankar Lamichhane Copy Share Image
I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to. — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.” — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly Copy Share Image
