Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
“Already the people murmur that I am your enemy because they say that in verse I give the world your me. They… — Julia de Burgos Jack Agüero Translator Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated,… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
Ways to be actively involved in the solution: 1. Consider adoption. 2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy… — John Piper Copy Share Image
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m.… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this:… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue.… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures. It is as if… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
“We were nobodies, two young lit. students chatting away in a rickety old house in a small town at the edge of… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature –… — Peter Abbs Copy Share Image
Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Snad to bylo i tím, co všechno jsem slyšel od pana profesora, který se překonával v nadávání, žádný kočí nedovedl tak nadávat… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature… — James Cameron 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
It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make… — Joseph Parker 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
“When The Journal of Words compiled its list of the one hundred best novels written in English, do you know that Pride… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield." Sean… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
