“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career. — Colin Jost Copy Share Image
I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good… — James Kisner Copy Share Image
What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has… — Judy Delton Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later literature becomes, sometimes almost… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Literature is the haven of fluidity, of slippage from one character to another, of movement. Women tend to read far more novels… — Anita Phillips Copy Share Image
“We come into a world with a history shaped by the subtle dichotomy of culture and ethos, the dynamic forces of ideas… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
