Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who’s anyone in children’s literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable… — Lynn messina Copy Share Image
I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" - ” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers. — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through… — Lenora Champagne Copy Share Image
I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to… — Ari Marcopoulos Copy Share Image
