We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must… — John Green Copy Share Image
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys.… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should… — William James Copy Share Image
I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit.' 'We're interested in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ...… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and… — Shahrnush Parsipur Copy Share Image
“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as… — J. V. Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
“There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty… — Yvonne Korshak Copy Share Image
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Bergé’s yelling had attracted the attention of everyone in the Kibati hall: champagne flutes stopped halfway to heavily painted lips, eyes widened,… — Mark Zero Copy Share Image
