It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
I think going back to school, studying as much as you can, especially literature and close reading some of the most beautiful… — Masiela Lusha 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
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
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit.' 'We're interested in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. Padahal ada banyak kesalahan yang hanya perlu dimaafkan, bukan dihukum. An eye for… — Morra Quatro Copy Share Image
Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words… — Dave DiGrazie Copy Share Image
There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
“I took the pistol off the man and shot him with it in both of his eyes. Somewhere in the back of… — Eli Wilde Copy Share Image
Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
'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
“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
