There is an incompatibility between literary creation and…

Change no man’s religion, change no man’s politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has and what…

— L. Ron Hubbard

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

— Theodore Roosevelt

In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough…

— Robert Alter

“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on the contrary,…

— Boris Pasternak

“The sense of literary creation is to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of future times; to find…

— Vladimir Nabokov

A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us…

— Boris Pasternak

“Revelation is a literary work composed with astonishing care and skill. We should certainly not doubt that John had remarkable visionary experiences, but he…

— Richard Bauckham

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

— Raymond Carver

“Indeed, the Bible has been cast adrift from its moorings and left to float on a sea of modern relativity. The “play” of meanings…

— Grant R. Osborne

“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary…

— Paul Louis Couchoud

Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . .…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“It is so much easier to throw oneself into social and political activity than to understand life as a whole; to be associated with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right balance between…

— Howard Zinn