It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville Copy Share Image
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Literature can remind us that not all ife is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think mainly my devotion to horror comes from international horror movies and literature. — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I'm a massive reader. I actually really love to collect antiquarian literature and I love that my job allows me to travel… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense… But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well… — Gauguin Copy Share Image
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Although we had had no precise exponents of realism, yet after Pushkin it was impossible for a Russian writer to depart too… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous. — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.” — John R. Lindensmith Copy Share Image
“Whenever you are presented with a problem, the first thing you should do is conduct a literature survey.” — USMC (Ret Lt Gen Paul K. Van Riper Copy Share Image
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors. — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
