Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life. — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way… — Marilyn Butler Copy Share Image
“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature –… — Peter Abbs Copy Share Image
This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to… — Steve Kerr Copy Share Image
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature. — Poe Ballantine Copy Share Image
The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Sarah Phelps is such an incredibly detailed writer. She's famous for bringing literature to life, like Dickens and Agatha Christie. — Sarah Greene Copy Share Image
The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
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