The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“The literary text seems like "a fortified medieval town –foreigners and outsiders are repelled, or allowed in only after rigorous checks, but… — Jeremy Hawthorn Copy Share Image
If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
“Because of the earth’s roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot… — George Will Copy Share Image
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
I wager we have a vast amount of literature out there that tends to the stories of men, so I've never really… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. Padahal ada banyak kesalahan yang hanya perlu dimaafkan, bukan dihukum. An eye for… — Morra Quatro Copy Share Image
“Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras,doesn't know what life… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
“Every naskar material that exists outside the books, exists only to redirect you to the canon - the gifs, the voice recordings,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
![“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges , The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town , The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]” quote by Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/85a/jorge-luis-borges-275_books_when-writers-die-they-become-books-which_1235779.jpg)
![“[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.” quote by George Will](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/10e/george-will-1177_books_cultural-relativism-licenses-the-envy-of_246138.png)
