“Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger Their word is the last word.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.” — Krystal McLean Copy Share Image
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
It fascinates me to analyze these things and, yes, to see layers in the texts and the building up of Biblical literature.… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell… — Andrea Mitchell 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
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! The people in this book died over sixty years ago, in the middle… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
If you can imagine the story of the world as a giant movie, to not have some understanding of the Bible -… — Steve Green Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of dystopian literature tends to be really moralizing and just doesn't tend to give credence to the… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“I was driven less by achievement than by trying to understand, in earnest: What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
