“There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature. — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I study English literature but my friends are doing psychology and things like that. No one cares about acting there. It's not… — Yasmin Paige Copy Share Image
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a… — John Wain Copy Share Image
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of… — Daniel B. Wallace 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
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience… — The Economist Copy Share Image
If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my… — Gregg Popovich Copy Share Image
“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing… — Gloria Goldreich Copy Share Image
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