Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
“And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy… — Will Self Copy Share Image
We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
“I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something… — Ander Monson Copy Share Image
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
There are some people that say I need to be more academic in my teaching, I need to be more disciple developing… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career. — Colin Jost Copy Share Image
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature… — John Drane Copy Share Image
On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Copy Share Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I find that when one has worked long enough, technical know-how becomes almost irrelevant. In photography, it's not difficult to reach a… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
“Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. — Nick Johnson Copy Share Image
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
