Rich people don't have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There are companies like Facebook that wield tremendous power over how Americans understand the world. Do they have a social responsibility now?… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
As an artist, my wheelhouse is 19th-century literature. I want to write realist novels in a Victorian sense, and the writers I… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having… — William James Copy Share Image
One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling… — William James Copy Share Image
I go bananas when I hear an opinion that goes against well-established political science literature. — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
I write things that I love I write things that I hate but the problem with what I write is I poorly… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional… — David Means Copy Share Image
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I went to a branch of the City of Westminster College in Maida Vale to do drama, sociology and English literature. I… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
