Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
“Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it. The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“That's sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
“I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell , in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the… — William James Copy Share Image
I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys.… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context,… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it, is in the first place 'literary', which is to say personal and passionate. It… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
