Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
“And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you.… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a… — Max Jacob Copy Share Image
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense?… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We've come a long way since 'Beowulf.' In the twentieth century, a strain in children's and YA literature offered the humorously conceived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
