You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?'… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare could not have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade,… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“We are all one. Everything is meaningless, and yet at the same time meaningful. Everything matters and doesn’t matter just as much,"… — Gala.J Copy Share Image
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an… — Caitriona Balfe Copy Share Image
I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
