A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“If arts and music, precious gifts in themselves, were akin to memory, literature was the self-knowing of the species; the human mind… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Whereas Books of Wonder excels with children's literature, McNally Jackson is where I go for my adult new releases, and no, it… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
Awesome piece of literature work can be found mostly in sad and angry hearts — Kevin Knight Copy Share Image
“Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“So things remained until one day, many years later, I happened upon a line in a poem by Heine: “Death is the… — Yu Hua Copy Share Image
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
