If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something. You won't mind, will you? Don't have scenes with your young ladies. Try not to. Because you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My background isn't in social software; it's in online community, social networks, personal publishing, blogging, self-expression on the Web. I got on… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Writers more interested in literature than the truth ensure that they never come out with either thing — one reason that the word literature… — The editors n+1 Copy Share Image
“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised -… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“Though it's true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn't rail against it… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“Reading lives is the primary activity. Reading literature, although we engage in it more intentionally and more mindfully, is the secondary one.… — William L. Randall Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
“We have no time to waste on insignificant books, hollow books, books that are there to please... We want books that cost… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“All the while that Jean was listening to him, he was vaguely conscious that what gives literature its reality is the result… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want… — Elena Poniatowska Copy Share Image
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a… — Martin Shubik Copy Share Image
Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage,… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“As more and more norms disappear from social praxis, literature faces ever-growing difficulties. Its predicament is beginning to resemble that of a… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic,… — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across -… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
