“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take the risk, to… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“I drove all night, northeast, and once again I felt it was literature I had been confronting these past days, the archetypes… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface,… — E. M. Forster 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
On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell , in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“In the wildlife sanctuaries of literature, we study the species of speech, the flight patterns of individual words, the herd behavior of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the… — William James Copy Share Image
Abdur Rab offers a comprehensive vision of Islam using the Quran as his sole religious textual source. He intentionally avoids the hadith… — Jeffrey Lang Copy Share Image
Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“A group of ten prisoners from Dachau, I was with them, we hid in the forest to wait for the Americans. The… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality ... by the fact… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Yet Katie held fast to the dream that perhaps there were men in the world who appreciated good women - men capable… — Marcia Lynn McClure Copy Share Image
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to… — Steve Kerr Copy Share Image
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
