Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Only if I knew that knowing it would bring a burden I could seldom carry and ferry among those I know, only… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Books are too personal as objects to be displayed, in case a potential buyer is put off by your taste for Nietzsche… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between… — Cathy Caruth Copy Share Image
“That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There's not a… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele,… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Het was een vergissing vanwege de juf, te denken dat alleen de dingen die in de boeken staan interessant zijn. Ook deze,… — Louis Paul Boon Copy Share Image
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Paid family leave, for instance, has strong backing in scientific literature as an effective means of enabling families who want kids to… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
