They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something. — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
I believe in literature which ties people together, that highlights what people have in common, despite the differences - color, sexual orientation,… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a… — Joseph Patrick Pascale Copy Share Image
Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Some days, it feels unreasonable to expect that an academic text can work as a form of movement assessment or to support… — Erica R. Meiners Copy Share Image
“Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Each blank page is an invitation to write; filling the space, however, is a challenge.” — Paulo Ricardo Zargolin Copy Share Image
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. — William Godwin 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
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
