Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must… — Ndiritu Wahome Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide,… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Under Milk Wood' was given to me when I was quite young, in Sydney. I didn't even know what Wales was, let… — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature -… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must… — John Green Copy Share Image
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“After thirty years working as a commercial fiction translator, I've reached to the conclussion that, on average, the more pages a book… — César Aira Copy Share Image
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys.… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
“One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit.' 'We're interested in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should… — William James Copy Share Image
I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and… — Shahrnush Parsipur Copy Share Image
All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as… — J. V. Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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