I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself… — Charles Harrington Elster Copy Share Image
“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
“It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“You don't find the concept of illicit love at all engaging?” “The concept, maybe. But in literature? That's like ordering a glass… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After… — Ryan Miller Copy Share Image
Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family. — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
“Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood.… — Bart Hopkins Copy Share Image
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
Almost everything I've learned about journalism has been from other friends who are journalists, taking advantage of the money I hope they… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Visitors are not permitted to see me twice. You will have to join the cult in order to do so. If the… — Rebecca Harlem Copy Share Image
“I don't think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
