My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“I read and re-read the books I had brought. The quality of the book didn’t matter. What was important was that there… — Sooyong Park Copy Share Image
Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book,… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“This person has hoped and dreamed and now it is really happening and this person can hardly believe it. But believing is… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“What is Poetry (My Sonnet, My Rules) Any gargoyle can google the definition of a sonnet, Any robot can write and rhyme… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh, how much… — Paula Gruben Copy Share Image
Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Though a work of literature can be read in a number of ways, this number is finite and can be arranged in… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“He saw the reflection of her face in a compact mirror as she painted on her re lips. She did it with… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
“Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Death has been said to be the leveller in that it does not recognize one’s class, race, ethnicity or nationality. Death does… — Remi Akujobi Copy Share Image
“There has never been any art or literature without drink and there never will be…Unless something is done about the matter [prohibition]… — Joseph Pennell Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Book critics certainly are judges who wield a tremendous amount of power in terms of whether or not a book will reach… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
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