I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance - I read it all.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write.… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“They were readers for whom literature was a drug, each complex plot line delivering a new high, suspending them above reality, allowing… — Gloria Goldreich Copy Share Image
The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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