Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature,… — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw says the archaeology of the stone monument is complex because overa period of more a 1,000 years of prehistory a… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation."… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
“Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your… — Jon Gresham Copy Share Image
“(If you read this story out loud, please use the following voices: ME: as a child, high-pitched, forgettable; as a woman, the… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
It is right here, all of it, here for the taking, right before our eyes - happiness, fulfillment, hope, peace, justice. And… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“History gives us the facts, sort of, but from literary works we can learn what the past smelled like, sounded like, and… — Scott Herring Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think The Magicians takes these conventional ideas from this Christian literature of good vs. evil and it sort of shakes it… — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has… — Anne Fausto-Sterling Copy Share Image
If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them… — Barbara Cooney Copy Share Image
Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
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