Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities—the truth isn’t.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The world of numbers and words is odd. A number is the only word that doesn’t lie and words can be very… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
“I want to see what life makes of you. One thing is certain - it can't spoil you. It may pull you… — Henry James Copy Share Image
In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for… — William Dyer Copy Share Image
The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Under the Volcano” embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab,… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at… — Foz Meadows Copy Share Image
I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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