The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.” — David Shields Copy Share Image
Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature. — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
“As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is… — Irina Ratushinskaya Copy Share Image
Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
