The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind. — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“The image of a wood has appeared often enough in English verse. It has indeed appeared so often that it has gathered… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Though I have lived most of my life with educationalists, I have little interest in educa¬ tion. I dislike schools, both for… — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our… — Martin Bashir Copy Share Image
“something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace” — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability,… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“...the mode by which he "heard" the universe and projected it far beyond himself. Perhaps it was in this, I said to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
