I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my… — Gen Urobuchi Copy Share Image
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opinion… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
In elaborating how "philosophy by showing" works, and in defending the idea that literature and music can contribute to philosophical "showing", I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature — George Ade Copy Share Image
“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Name me the final number, the highest, the greatest. But that's absurd! If the number of numbers is infinite, how can there… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader.… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
“What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')” — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
