In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby. She sits still as the boat silently floats… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
“Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
You look at the Koran or the Bible, they all tell the same stories. You see them as the stories of the… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
“Like literature, music can overwhelm you with sudden emotion, can move you to absolute sorrow or ecstasy; like literature, painting has the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.” — J.A. Burrow Copy Share Image
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“That night, I wash myself. The silky suds between my legs are the color and scent of rust, but I am newer… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do and doing it at the right time to get the desired result. It is… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to… — Paul Quarrington 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
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow… But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. — George Sand Copy Share Image
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists,… — George Andrew Olah Copy Share Image
“It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who… — Alain de Botton 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
Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words… — Dave DiGrazie Copy Share Image
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