There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature. — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as… — Santosh Kalwar 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
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 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
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
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 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
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
Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Non-violent ecological activism, scientific research and art are pillars of my experience. But I am also a story-teller. I merge science, and… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“When it begins it is like a light in a tunnel, a rush of steel and steam across a torn up life.… — Jason Derr Copy Share Image
You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
