Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We believe that games are a legitimate medium, as legitimate as literature, to talk about very dark and serious things. — David Cage Copy Share Image
I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
“To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a question… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role… — Arinn Dembo Copy Share Image
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The medical literature is full of reports going back many years that provide evidence that thyroid medication, used when indicated, is one… — Broda Otto Barnes Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare could not have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature,… — Stig Dagerman Copy Share Image
Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic, the erotic and the tommy-rotic.” — W. Giese Copy Share Image
Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it. — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“Coffee makes you alert, books make you awake. Booze makes you forget life, books bring you to life.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Ili mu se sve to pričinjavalo od viška literature i manjka života?” — Goran Petrović Copy Share Image
Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
