And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I always was good, even in my times of being bad as hell in school. I always used to get good grades… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done… — M. G. Vassanji Copy Share Image
Nearly everything that defines much of our daily experiences is consummatory in nature. Yes, we consume products and services. But we also… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best… — Lyudmila Ulitskaya Copy Share Image
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that… — James Payn Copy Share Image
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“Marie-Louise Mallet emphasizes the decreased control over the experience of listening as opposed to looking: To look is to choose one’s point… — Marie-Louise Mallet Copy Share Image
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
As a woman of colour, as a person who is a minority, I believe its important that other people know about my… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps… — H. L. Mencken 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
He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you… — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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