It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Wooden scrabble letters offer a whole forest of literature, tiled down for easy shower installment. If you limit your use to only… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it… — David Small Copy Share Image
I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“One had, in any case, a bag full of fruits that resemble stars, picked by the handful in the luminous forest ...” — Léon Bloy Copy Share Image
“In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Beginning in the 11th century, a less-fragmented Europe began to take shape, and what we now call medieval culture - in which… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Non-violent ecological activism, scientific research and art are pillars of my experience. But I am also a story-teller. I merge science, and… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were… — azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something. You won't mind, will you? Don't have scenes with your young ladies. Try not to. Because you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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