All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly. — Ernest Hemingway 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
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in… — Stephen King 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
A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Have no regrets. Every relationship leads you to where you're meant to be. Learn to be comfortable with being alone. Learn to… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.” — John Sayles Copy Share Image
“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself...I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Great literature remains great when it says new things to new generations, and the loops of a knot quite nicely parallel the… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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