Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
“Did she feel pity for me, did she want me to suffer? The next morning she led me to the coat closet,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The vast body of literature, in every domain, is composed of hand-me-down ideas. The question — never resolved, alas! — is to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“During his extensive career as an airmail pilot with Aéropostale, Antoine served as the company’s station manager in barren Villa Bens. During… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
“I was asked: You write some intimate scenes in your stories on You Me & Stories but they are not explicit. Why… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in… — William James Copy Share Image
“Literature, after all, from Homer onwards, is littered with the recounting of deaths and with the fascination for death, and in this… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon.… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
“My life had got on the wrong track, and my contact with men had become now a mere soliloquy. I had fallen… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone,… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“Considering that the modern and contemporary literature taught in most universities is largely bleak, cynical, morbid, pessimistic, misanthropic dogmatism, often written by… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists,… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“If you only read literature books, only novels, only poetry, only theatre, you are not reading a book! To read in the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I'm a critic. That means you are a writer. So, yes, you have to make yourself an authority on whatever subject it's… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
