Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children. — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that. — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.” — J.A. Burrow Copy Share Image
“That night, I wash myself. The silky suds between my legs are the color and scent of rust, but I am newer… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby. She sits still as the boat silently floats… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
“Howard adores Sam's looks. He loves the strong cut of jaw made satin with thickening peach fuzz, loses himself in the green… — Chandler Burr Copy Share Image
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My father read Günter Grass. He introduced me to German literature. I believe the first book I read by a German author… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
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