The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
There were, like, 20 of [Jackie Kennedy's biographies], which was interesting because they are not exactly high literature - they are pulpy.But… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature.… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible.… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence...it will be Nirvana on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I’m not interested in… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of… — Margaret Mazzantini Copy Share Image
I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
“A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do… — Moby Copy Share Image
Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Most important thing in life is family, Without them you are nothing. Whatever you do will be worth nothing, If there is… — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my… — Gen Urobuchi Copy Share Image
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In India, not enough importance is given to writing for children. And what could be more important than the enrichment of young… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials. — Clarke Peters Copy Share Image
At 17, I went to an engineering college, the entire reading was about fluid mechanics and steam engines and what not, so… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
I am fine with my books being categorized as African-American literature but I hope they are also considered Haitian-American literature and American… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
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