Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It just literally never an option!” — Lillian R. Melendez Copy Share Image
“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.” — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Literature is the most legal drug of all. And the most peaceful way of escaping reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature. — Henry David Thoreau 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
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.” — Anthea Syrokou Copy Share Image
Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The P.R. person… — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly,… — Giles Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special knowledge,… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full… — Samad Beh-Rang Copy Share Image
Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life.… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
“The Lord of the Rings is a million times more interesting than mere literature, which is why mere literary critics cannot get… — Robert McNeil Copy Share Image
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.” — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I thought it was strange that I was called after a woman who killed herself in ancient literature. You just don't call… — Dido Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
