Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must… — Ndiritu Wahome Copy Share Image
“Unjustified ambition kills value, Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air. If there is nothing else, it… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts… — KGE Konkel Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not… — Mario Copy Share Image
My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable)… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
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