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
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
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
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
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
“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
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“An artist is the magician put among men to gratify--capriciously--their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls… Most of us assume there is something goodin every… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“When you write a story, don't just write it - live it; When putting words into the mouth of a protagonist (or… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
“Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
German has always felt the language that I come back to. It's given a very hard time by most people for being… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Elgin himself looked ten years younger, now that he’d cast the die, but I thought exuberance had got the better of him… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton 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
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
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
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
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
There are companies like Facebook that wield tremendous power over how Americans understand the world. Do they have a social responsibility now?… — Haroon Moghul 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
“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
