“When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door.… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Beginning in the 11th century, a less-fragmented Europe began to take shape, and what we now call medieval culture - in which… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially… — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant… — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
“In the infinite universe of literature there are always other avenues to explore, some brand-new and some exceedingly ancient, styles and forms… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature.… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking,… — Theo Dorgan Copy Share Image
Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it… — Ken Olsen Copy Share Image
Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about the lack… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is… — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I always think of Ireland as a place for complex ideas and prose. I like Irishness. I like Irish culture and Irish… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron Copy Share Image
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