In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
I have grown up in a family where cinema, literature and music are highly valued. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales.… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together… — John Metcalf Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called… — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us,… — Chinua Achebe 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
“Zam watched as the creature began to fade, until it disappeared altogether and all that remained was his own reflection in the… — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
“Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit?… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
