Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family. — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save. — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston… — Michael Eric Dyson 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
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people;… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
“The parrot had a range of phrases. His own name ('Niko, Niko'), the name of his original owner and now 'Stavros'. Occasionally… — Victoria Hislop Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
“Thence it is possible to arrive by easy stages at the happy notion, not uncommon among 'intellectuals', that taste consists of distaste,… — F.L. Lucas Copy Share Image