When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Literature works from mind to mind and is more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I want to knock on people's doors and preach. But I also meet a lot of people on planes and in restaurants,… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the… — Erik Christian Haugaard Copy Share Image
...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential. — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
