An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism. — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“I don't fear death--I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end.” — Amy Elizabeth Smith Copy Share Image
In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature. — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I graduated college valedictorian, got an M.A. from Columbia University in Spanish literature at the age of twenty-two, and still couldn't answer… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry –… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher: to share in grand conversations about books,… — Jeffrey D Wilhelm Copy Share Image
“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The Anglican service today was more familiar to me from movies. Like one of the great Shakespeare speeches, the graveside oration, studded… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“O, great wise man,' she said, 'I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The real world is cruel, but in the comfort of literature it can bring some light. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I don't write poems to melt your heart. I write them, so our hearts can melt together. — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors. — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
