“Whom boasts about his happiness, cause doesn't got it!” — Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" - ” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.” — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance.” — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban,… — John Walker Lindh Copy Share Image
In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature,… — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
