Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
“As night falls silently all around, She carefully turns the last page.” — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for… — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence… — Todorov Tzvetan Copy Share Image
Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form,… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
“But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
“It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh, how much… — Paula Gruben Copy Share Image
