Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
When it comes to music, movies, literature, paintings, and even Bikram yoga, it's pretty easy to have an opinion about whether something… — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there. You have… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
My comic timing is completely based on Pu La's literature, his style of writing and the wittiness between the lines. — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of… — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“The parrot had a range of phrases. His own name ('Niko, Niko'), the name of his original owner and now 'Stavros'. Occasionally… — Victoria Hislop Copy Share Image
