“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life,… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
