All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book! — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Only if I knew that knowing it would bring a burden I could seldom carry and ferry among those I know, only… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image