I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There are some people that say I need to be more academic in my teaching, I need to be more disciple developing… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
“Stories don’t teach us to be good; it isn’t as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself… — Charles Harrington Elster Copy Share Image
Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
We look for evidence of the divine and we find it in nature, in art, in literature, in music in film, so,… — John Middendorf Copy Share Image
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy...it is that best… — Sarah Smith Copy Share Image
A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of… — Nancy Birdsall Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“ Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“6 criteria to upgrade literary production; Correct language, the power of the idea, the fluency in expressing, the connection between ideas and… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to… — Lars Gustafsson Copy Share Image
Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It is my sincere hope that Christopher Bryson's apparently thorough and comprehensive perusal of the scientific literature on the biological actions of… — Arvid Carlsson Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“This paying attention is the foundational act of empathy, of listening, of seeing, of imagining experiences other than one's own, of getting… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
