Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered.… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for… — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers [novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with… — Jess C Scott 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
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville Copy Share Image
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there… — James Payn Copy Share Image
That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world? — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
