Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In…

I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

— Derek Walcott

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by…

— Vance Palmer

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.

— Keith Gessen

During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at…

— Akira Kurosawa

But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.

— Bob Marley

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my…

— Tucker Max

Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a…

— Ernest Kurtz

I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important.…

— Robert Sapolsky

I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.

— Mary L. Trump

You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain…

— Richard Rohr

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

— John le Carre

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt…

— Gene Wolfe

The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to…

— Martin McGuinness