Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“If you only read literature books, only novels, only poetry, only theatre, you are not reading a book! To read in the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw… — David Chase Copy Share Image
I'm a critic. That means you are a writer. So, yes, you have to make yourself an authority on whatever subject it's… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a… — Yu Hua Copy Share Image
I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me… — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people,… — Kristie LeVangie Copy Share Image
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“With the rum bottle empty, Marsh had moved on to the Guinness in the kitchen cupboard. After a bottle and a half,… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“The vast body of literature, in every domain, is composed of hand-me-down ideas. The question — never resolved, alas! — is to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“During his extensive career as an airmail pilot with Aéropostale, Antoine served as the company’s station manager in barren Villa Bens. During… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they… — David Shields Copy Share Image
The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take… — William James Copy Share Image
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
“If you will read and listen, you will admit a multiplicity of voices and points of view, consider them with some humility,… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
“Did she feel pity for me, did she want me to suffer? The next morning she led me to the coat closet,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
