Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary... — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The main reason I decided to study Latin American literature was because I'd gotten somewhat bored by the American fiction I was… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal… — Leopold Auer Copy Share Image
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes. — Nathaniel Rich Copy Share Image
“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself” — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century. — Douglas Gresham Copy Share Image
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