Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature. — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I go bananas when I hear an opinion that goes against well-established political science literature. — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
For me, literature is the daughter of music: a bit heavy and more level headed than its mother. Literature submits to the… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
“When you don't have, or feel that you don't have, an extra moment to read philosophy, history, or science, when great literature,… — Jeff Davidson Copy Share Image
“In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating on the vices and follies… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.” — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance. — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
“Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
