“All of human literature could just be a user’s guide to the multiverse!” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities—the truth isn’t.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
“Literature's father figures can only loom, intimidate, and inspire for so long before they must be slain by their offspring.” — Larry McCaffery Copy Share Image
Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no one 'best set-up', there are many - you can get to mate in endless ways. And - don't forget!… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
