The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and… — Henry Jenner Copy Share Image
“When it begins it is like a light in a tunnel, a rush of steel and steam across a torn up life.… — Jason Derr Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art". — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. — David Augsburger Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of… — William James Copy Share Image
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