I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance,… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
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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
Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“a spider and a fly i heard a spider and a fly arguing wait said the fly do not eat me i… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs… — Will Self Copy Share Image
At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called… — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
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“The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall… — Alfred Bernhard Nobel Copy Share Image
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Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and… — Henry Jenner Copy Share Image
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
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The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of… — Carrie Coon 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
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She… — Marita Bonner Copy Share Image
“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness… — David Small Copy Share Image
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
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