In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Paid family leave, for instance, has strong backing in scientific literature as an effective means of enabling families who want kids to… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
“Bergé’s yelling had attracted the attention of everyone in the Kibati hall: champagne flutes stopped halfway to heavily painted lips, eyes widened,… — Mark Zero Copy Share Image
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James Copy Share Image
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere — John Donne Copy Share Image
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. — Edward Blishen Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
