...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
The amplification of our diverse literary voices is a political act of resistance. Our lives are important, too. Our lives should be… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I loved Rushmore. I loved the script. I mean, that is what drew me to it, just the actual piece of literature… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“This isn’t the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The most important thing [anarchists] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it. The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests… — Morton Ann Gernsbacher Copy Share Image
For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
“All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy is a major contribution to art therapy literature and practice. Laury Rappaport introduces a contemplative method and philosophy grounded… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did.… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It's a very different thing when you're able to read something and see it in your mind, then to imagine it on… — Jonathan Mostow Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“...the mode by which he "heard" the universe and projected it far beyond himself. Perhaps it was in this, I said to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
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