Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized. — William James Copy Share Image
“Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better. — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“I was asked: You write some intimate scenes in your stories on You Me & Stories but they are not explicit. Why… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
