The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people… — David Platt Copy Share Image
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now.… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“You can be involved with theory; you can teach or study theory; you can hate theory or be afraid of it. None… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We tend to think of Hamlet as one of the wisest, most intellectually prodigious characters in all of literature. Which he is,… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages,… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our… — Martin Bashir Copy Share Image
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She… — Marita Bonner Copy Share Image
You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been a rower of two boats. I have been here physically and somewhere else mentally. My existence… — Sadia Hakim Copy Share Image
Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums -… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi 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
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