“Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.” — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
“Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.” — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I did not begin writing for love of literature. I did so for love of science. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
At 19, while studying at St Xavier's College and majoring in literature and sociology, I got my first job as a copywriter.… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who… — John Millington Synge 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
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
