The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
“Dad?" But he's still looking out the window, not at me. I walk over and lean my head against his shoulder. His… — Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. — Leif Enger 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
The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.” — Benjamin J. Carey Copy Share Image
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate Laura Antonelli. She's burning to do well. And then she has an extraordinary face, even without make-up. It's not with… — Luchino Visconti Copy Share Image
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
