In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings. — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
I graduated college valedictorian, got an M.A. from Columbia University in Spanish literature at the age of twenty-two, and still couldn't answer… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book,… — Laurie Foos 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
Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele,… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The money you are looking for is not in any country, phd or your designer outlook, it is in wisdom. Solomon never… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater.… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Everyone thought she was so confident and together, but that was really a mask she wore to protect herself. The old adage… — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!” — Veronika Carnaby Copy Share Image
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
