One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the 'Decameron' itself was it was written in the Florentine dialect as opposed to the Latin… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
Activities that promote mind-wandering, such as reading literature, going for a walk, exercising, or listening to music, are hugely restorative. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
As far as people communicating with each other well I think that listening is important. You know really trying to read between… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs. — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?'… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare could not have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade,… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
