He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Women from fashion magazines, they hate other women. They like to tell other women they are ugly and often it works. Women's… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it… — Nick Hornby (Author Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Few would have seen Solomon and realised they were looking at one of wartime London’s top gangsters. With his receding hairline, thick-lenses… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
“Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I always was good, even in my times of being bad as hell in school. I always used to get good grades… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
