My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do,… — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers.… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that… — Albert Maltz Copy Share Image
I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The psalms, like no other literature, lift us to a position where we can commune with God, capturing a sense of the… — Gordon Fee Copy Share Image
I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death,… — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
“Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I have always lusted after a sepia-toned library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and a sliding ladder. I fantasie about Tennessee Williams' types of… — Amy Mowafi Copy Share Image
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
As factual and thoughtful literature began to seep in, against the Nazis' will, and replace the reams of Nazi propaganda, I began… — Martha Dodd Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He looks up at her, and behind her, at the sky, which holds more stars than he ever has seen at one… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in...We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
“Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Does it ever occur to such reviewers that the meaning of the story might lie in the language itself, in the movement… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoesand shipsand sealing-wax Of cabbagesand kings And why the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered.… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
