The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society. — Guo Moruo Copy Share Image
“Every word I write is a defiance of despair, every idea is testament to life out loud.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
We have literature indicating that overwhelmingly, health is influenced by a very short list of modifiable behaviors topped by three: tobacco use,… — David Katz Copy Share Image
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon’s personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas… — Panio Gianopoulos Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“A midst deceit I found the truth; there in the rough I found a diamond. And from the moment we met, I… — Donato DiCristino Copy Share Image
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
