a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
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For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne,… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
“How Are We to Live is a collection of short stories, not a novel. This in itself is a disappointment. It seems… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I work from the body - I try to develop a language of the body. I've invented a term I call "corporeal… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature… — John Drane Copy Share Image
“What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?'… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It's hard to know what [literature] will end up being timeless and what will be something that doesn't translate into the future,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds… — William James Copy Share Image
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We tend to think of Hamlet as one of the wisest, most intellectually prodigious characters in all of literature. Which he is,… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
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