Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm.” — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is… — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Music, dance, literature and the visual arts open up a rich and intensely rewarding world. It is a world that should not… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
My point of view comes more from the literature I've read and the comedy of the era. When I was a kid,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To Americans Boris Vian has long been one of the hidden glories of French literature. In I Spit on Your Graves, he… — Jim Krusoe Copy Share Image
