Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.” — Carolyn Weber Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it. — Gretchen Rubin 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
“Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.” — Margot McCuaig Copy Share Image
I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born… — Edouard Bourdet Copy Share Image
The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We read to understand our intuition of the world, to discover that someone a thousand miles and years away has put into… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“But living amid so many words, I overestimated their power and breadth. The world does not turn on words alone; it only… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful." "There's a literature about this?" "You'd be amazed,… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
"Someone": I understood that this was a character who in her own life her voice hadn't much been heard and in literature… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“...begged them as we read our literary texts, only to listen. To wrench open - it takes an effort of will -… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is… — David Novak Copy Share Image
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
