I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Few subjects are inherently dull: language is where dullness or liveliness resides.” — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around. — John K Van De Kamp Copy Share Image
To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents- were they the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our… — Martin Bashir Copy Share Image
Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“My life had got on the wrong track, and my contact with men had become now a mere soliloquy. I had fallen… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
“Considering that the modern and contemporary literature taught in most universities is largely bleak, cynical, morbid, pessimistic, misanthropic dogmatism, often written by… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I don't fear death--I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end.” — Amy Elizabeth Smith Copy Share Image
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature. — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism. — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated. — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. — David Augsburger Copy Share Image
“Literature, to put it another way, is an unpredictable and endless meme gone wild.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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