Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save. — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
If you can imagine the story of the world as a giant movie, to not have some understanding of the Bible -… — Steve Green Copy Share Image
Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great. — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
In most countries, property law means that people can take possession of manuscripts and, in some circumstances, a lone copy of a… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher: to share in grand conversations about books,… — Jeffrey D Wilhelm Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read… — Sid Fleischman Copy Share Image
“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
“There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical,… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
