Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time. — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" -… — Sherry Marie Gallagher Copy Share Image
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Scholarship cannot do without literature… It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard,… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
“Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
As a woman of colour, as a person who is a minority, I believe its important that other people know about my… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
