'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how… — Rob Nilsson Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church. — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Very often I hear talk about female literature, or femininity in literature. It's a categorization I am not sure about. Maybe there… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from. — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this:… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
