Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination… — William James Copy Share Image
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
According to Muslim teachings, God first revealed His word in the Holy Qur'an to the prophet, Muhammad, during the month of Ramadan.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“During his extensive career as an airmail pilot with Aéropostale, Antoine served as the company’s station manager in barren Villa Bens. During… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
My father read Günter Grass. He introduced me to German literature. I believe the first book I read by a German author… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“Spend the glittering moonlight there Pursuing down the soundless deep Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair, Or floating lazy, half-asleep. Dive and… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
When we're good, we're very, very good, and when we're bad, we're horrid. This is not news, because we're so much more… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
“So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation."… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
