“Literature is and should continue to be a vehicle that dispels 'otherness' or the 'outsider” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Awesome piece of literature work can be found mostly in sad and angry hearts — Kevin Knight Copy Share Image
Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings. — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
“Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.” — Dejan Stojanovic 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
The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the… — William F. Albright 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
“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental… — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life,… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
The starting point for English work must be the ability to handle effectively their own experience. Oral work, written work and the… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I don't think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.” — Daphne Kalotay Copy Share Image
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote; La Mancha is not just geography; It is our personal territory— Terra Nostra.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual. — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
“I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.” — Salvador Plascencia Copy Share Image
“He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.” — Dr. Kyaciss Pfiell Copy Share Image
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
