Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The world of numbers and words is odd. A number is the only word that doesn’t lie and words can be very… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.” — Adam Phillips Going Sane Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literatureis totally lacking in any working method to enable it to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
