The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A… — Sune Bergstrom Copy Share Image
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor… — John Green Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
To give subjectivity to the Dozier School boys is fundamentally mind-blowing. In literature, you're allowed to write from the inside, but at… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
