I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it… — Ken Olsen Copy Share Image
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own… — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history,… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently go along with our lives. We know exactly one… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.” — Mark Zero Copy Share Image
This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets, half a thousand limericks, half a thousand free verse poems, yet I still say, I'm… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based… — Christopher Doyle Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the… — Eca De Queiroz 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
Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy.… — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
