Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly… — Gregory Allen Howard Copy Share Image
“Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime,… — Bill Bennett Copy Share Image
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“Thee, my serenity, one can not bear, Seeing thee befuddled, bereaved, Dimmed like the midnight, secluded, darkened, Thee, my serenity, A window… — Hamidreza Bagheri Copy Share Image
Once, Azamgarh was known in the field of education and literature, but the Samajwadi Party turned it into a stronghold of terrorism. — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.” — Kenneth McLeish Copy Share Image
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense)… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
