I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes,… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
There is no one 'best set-up', there are many - you can get to mate in endless ways. And - don't forget!… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures. It is as if… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
“Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely. — Laura Miller 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
The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is reflected in the word like the sun in a drop of water. Lev Vygotsky--Thought and Language” — Vygotsky Copy Share Image
I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable… — Milton Babbitt Copy Share Image
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else:… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same. — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
