There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are… — César Aira Copy Share Image
Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Have you ever reached to a point where you asked God if the assignment is really from Him. In your account you… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across… — Virgil Copy Share Image
You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“Sence and Sensibility, for instance, came out in three separate volumes, as did Pride and Prejudice (so the next time you read… — Amy Elizabeth Smith Copy Share Image
At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even… — William Thomas Beckford Copy Share Image
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