At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
“I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
“So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings, outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses strongly present… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly,… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
I always thought books were just the canon, things I couldn't identify with. And then I was introduced to really amazing multicultural… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of… — Zakaria Tamer Copy Share Image
“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Literature had torn Tessa and me apart, or prevented us from merging in the first place. That was its role in the… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction… — Ron Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
“But I'll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I like poetry, but honestly, I like dramatic literature more. If I had to pick between Rumi and Dostoevsky, I would pick… — Ramin Bahrani Copy Share Image
The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact,… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things?… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
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