Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“On THE AMBER SPYGLASS: "If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Academic criticism often focuses on pleasing the examiners for various purposes. It lacks the aesthetic design, the nobility of purpose and the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“Books are too personal as objects to be displayed, in case a potential buyer is put off by your taste for Nietzsche… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the… — Willigis Jager Copy Share Image
“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she… — John Green Copy Share Image
War in Africa is hardly a new phenomenon, nor are voices telling its stories of terror and triumph. Yet some of the… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There's not a… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
“If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between… — Cathy Caruth Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to understand something I couldn't articulate. It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a fluttering, a kind of… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
“The stories surrounding eating durians remind us that literature should incorporate low culture, bringing it closer to lived reality. These legends come… — Wong Yoon Wah Copy Share Image
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Practical advice.—People who read much must always keep it in mind that life is one thing, literature another. Not that authors invariably… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
“Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history,… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently go along with our lives. We know exactly one… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own… — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
