German has always felt the language that I come back to. It's given a very hard time by most people for being… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we… — David Daiches Copy Share Image
I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“We have learnt a lesson: words written in books, all of them, are lies. There are no exceptions. Words written on papers… — NisiOisiN Copy Share Image
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I was never ideological in any sense, or a slave to any particular politics or religion. My solace and my inspiration always… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
“In his entire life, Father Abaddon Sohar had never seen anything like what was in that cell, and he knew instantly that at least… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
“We shared a daughter? I'd not thought about it that way before. If we shared a daughter, and something happened to Claire,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
