The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable)… — David Shields Copy Share Image
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before him; and the past… — John Williams Copy Share Image
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed! — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
