Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.” — John R. Lindensmith Copy Share Image
There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous. — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Paid family leave, for instance, has strong backing in scientific literature as an effective means of enabling families who want kids to… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Literature and the other arts play with pattern - our brains understand our world by recognizing patterns - and with possibility. The… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“NOTHING I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
