Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.” — Amy Joy Copy Share Image
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been a rower of two boats. I have been here physically and somewhere else mentally. My existence… — Sadia Hakim Copy Share Image
I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes,… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the… — Aurel Stein Copy Share Image
“His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings, outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses strongly present… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
“I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger Their word is the last word.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.” — Krystal McLean Copy Share Image
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
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