To me the truth comes first and then the literature. We in China are dealing with a dictatorial system and we writers… — Liao Yiwu Copy Share Image
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with… — Julien Torma Copy Share Image
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Lucknow, as far as I have heard, is always known for its culture, literature and poetry. So it has set a cultural… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
Paid family leave, for instance, has strong backing in scientific literature as an effective means of enabling families who want kids to… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always… — Bronagh Gallagher Copy Share Image
If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“He couldn't imagine using the word 'rewarding' about a work of art - for instance that such and such a book has… — Dag Solstad Copy Share Image
Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“That cloak of love you were wearing—he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.” — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Most important thing in life is family, Without them you are nothing. Whatever you do will be worth nothing, If there is… — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through… — Lenora Champagne Copy Share Image
“The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way… — Marilyn Butler Copy Share Image
If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade,… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature… — Barry Barish 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
My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by… — Italo Calvino 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
