At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
In college, I was dead set on being a philosophy major, because I wanted to figure out the meaning of life. Four… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
“Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must… — Ndiritu Wahome Copy Share Image
“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I held Angie Luna in that room for hours, and I remember the different times we made love like epochs in a… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit.' 'We're interested in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
