“Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. — John Morley Copy Share Image
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated. — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with… — Julien Torma Copy Share Image
When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
It was just such a complete shock to turn on the news one day and see someone that you know, someone you… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
“In my early teens, I heard about Naked Lunch and its mutating typewriters and talking cockroaches. While I would hardly classify its… — Peter Dubé Copy Share Image
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a… — John Green Copy Share Image
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. — David Augsburger Copy Share Image
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Literature, to put it another way, is an unpredictable and endless meme gone wild.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
