“I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! — John Lahr Copy Share Image
“Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime,… — Bill Bennett Copy Share Image
For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial… — David E. Fessenden Copy Share Image
The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines -… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
