Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around. — John K Van De Kamp Copy Share Image
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Few subjects are inherently dull: language is where dullness or liveliness resides.” — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers [novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
“Life outside of my profession? I didn’t have one. My profession was my life. It was better that way. - Rip, Anti-Nice… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages,… — Susanna Phillips Copy Share Image
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read… — Sid Fleischman Copy Share Image
[People] didn't vote for me because they thought I was a racist and if you look at my campaign literature it is… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Dad?" But he's still looking out the window, not at me. I walk over and lean my head against his shoulder. His… — Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock Copy Share Image
After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources… — David Duke Copy Share Image
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image