A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of… — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
Indeed, I still read a fair amount of French literature and I am very attracted to the emotional depth and simplicity of… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
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
“Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is… — David Cage Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“Practically all human literature deals with the present and the past; when literature tries to describe the future, it at once ceases… — Francis Mccullagh Copy Share Image
Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that… — Jessica Hagedorn 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
We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a… — Frank Gehry 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
“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
Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must… — Ndiritu Wahome Copy Share Image
I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide,… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Under Milk Wood' was given to me when I was quite young, in Sydney. I didn't even know what Wales was, let… — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature -… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must… — John Green Copy Share Image
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“After thirty years working as a commercial fiction translator, I've reached to the conclussion that, on average, the more pages a book… — César Aira Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys.… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
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