People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Het was een vergissing vanwege de juf, te denken dat alleen de dingen die in de boeken staan interessant zijn. Ook deze,… — Louis Paul Boon Copy Share Image
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele,… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Paid family leave, for instance, has strong backing in scientific literature as an effective means of enabling families who want kids to… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word, — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments. — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay… — K Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
“If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Accused of spreading pornography on the communications revolution, notat all fair, here are the best of literature available that you do not… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Scholarship cannot do without literature… It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" -… — Sherry Marie Gallagher Copy Share Image
