Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws. — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
“Yet any distinction between literature and life is misleading. Literature for me is not merely the best part of life; it is… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date… — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
“There is a love for structure in them that I recognize, and a desire to worship correctness that I know and I… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing.… — Lillian R. Melendez Copy Share Image
“Most people in this country are looking for literature that is useful. They feel that just exploring their feelings is good enough… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
