I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.” — Salvador Plascencia Copy Share Image
That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual. — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
A large body of literature suggests that wellbeing is intimately linked to attachment - not only to other people, but also to… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating on the vices and follies… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
