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What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions -… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature.… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
My area of research is something that in all fairness has no practical usability whatsoever and the thing is I'm often asked… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of… — JJ Feild Copy Share Image
“Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's… — Byron Ortiz Copy Share Image
“Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly,… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to… — Peter Gizzi Copy Share Image
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing"… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday,… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I would be concerned if one of my children were constantly watching nothing but horror films or indulging in gothic literature without… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Academics always feel that they deserve more. (Roberto Bolano) Reading and enjoying fine literature is a highly cultivated and refined activity, whereas… — Kim Leine Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic.… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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