I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I don't know how it is for people who write fiction or literature, but for me, when I'm writing music, especially with… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The P.R. person… — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“I have hope in who I am becoming. I have belief in every scar and disgraceful word I have ever spoken or… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
