My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school. — George Gamow Copy Share Image
“Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.” — Heath White Copy Share Image
“All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.” — Viken Berberian Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“What is the point of all these books when I learn best by reading your body?” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated,… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Ways to be actively involved in the solution: 1. Consider adoption. 2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m.… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue.… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this:… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
