Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Literature can remind us that not all ife is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting… — Stacey D'Erasmo Copy Share Image
“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has… — Dorothea Singer Copy Share Image
The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting,… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image