Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In many ways, Bengalis and Marathis happen to be very similar. Both love theatre, literature and seafood. — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can… — Ivan Stoikov Copy Share Image
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when… — Parker Harris Copy Share Image
I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to… — Marita Bonner 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
I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
