One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered.… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets, half a thousand limericks, half a thousand free verse poems, yet I still say, I'm… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Music just gives me so much energy and inspiration. Music and literature in a way probably influence me more than cinema does… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
“This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.” — Mark Zero Copy Share Image
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based… — Christopher Doyle Copy Share Image
When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the… — Eca De Queiroz Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy.… — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The psalms, like no other literature, lift us to a position where we can commune with God, capturing a sense of the… — Gordon Fee Copy Share Image
