Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance… — Andrew Latimer Copy Share Image
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing.… — Lillian R. Melendez Copy Share Image
The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking -… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
“When you write a story, don't just write it - live it; When putting words into the mouth of a protagonist (or… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it. — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
