To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
“Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping… — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“literature, in fact, had been concerned with virtues and vices of a perfectly healthy sort, the regular functioning of brains of a… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
To give subjectivity to the Dozier School boys is fundamentally mind-blowing. In literature, you're allowed to write from the inside, but at… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities… — Lidia Yuknavitch 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
“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 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
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
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs… — Richard Dawkins 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 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
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
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