Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous. — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers. — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. — Nick Johnson Copy Share Image
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
“One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures. It is as if… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Though it's true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn't rail against it… — Robert Lane Greene 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
“Human beings don’t necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly… — Moshin Hamid Copy Share Image
“The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see… — Andre Gide 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
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
We believe that games are a legitimate medium, as legitimate as literature, to talk about very dark and serious things. — David Cage Copy Share Image
“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“There are actually undiscovered books in tiny bookstore nooks waiting to be discovered. Doesn’t that get you excited?” — Todd B. Vick Copy Share Image
One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature. — Tu Youyou Copy Share Image
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
