In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature — Anita Brookner 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 literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. — Katharine Kerr Copy Share Image
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of… — May Sarton 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
If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade,… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts… — KGE Konkel Copy Share Image
“You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable blessing. A tree, oil, coal,… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
“Literature, sharing a wonderful story, is what brings the world together.” — Elizabeth Spann Craig Copy Share Image
“In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. —ANDRÉ MAUROIS” — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
“Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“All of human literature could just be a user’s guide to the multiverse!” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save. — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family. — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.” — Dr. Kyaciss Pfiell Copy Share Image
