I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point… — Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives Copy Share Image
“He looks up at her, and behind her, at the sky, which holds more stars than he ever has seen at one… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.” — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence… — David Schneider Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
“We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't… — Thomas C. Foster 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'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published.… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is… — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas… — Cao Yu Copy Share Image
I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going… — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
