“The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.” — Viken Berberian Copy Share Image
Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You are not to take it, if you please, as the saying of an ignorant man, when I express my opinion that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil”… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I think people in the north and the south and the east and the west, anywhere they come from, are just as… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle;… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based… — Christopher Doyle Copy Share Image
“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.” — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Lucknow, as far as I have heard, is always known for its culture, literature and poetry. So it has set a cultural… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting,… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
