Awesome piece of literature work can be found mostly in sad and angry hearts — Kevin Knight Copy Share Image
Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings. — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live,… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.” — Hillel F. Damron Copy Share Image
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The church was always very adept at incorporating all the different artistic disciplines. What we call the church is actually an assemblage… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
“I had to go to literature to survive. It was through literature such as Black Spring that I came to a deeper… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
“Reading lives is the primary activity. Reading literature, although we engage in it more intentionally and more mindfully, is the secondary one.… — William L. Randall Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
“We have no time to waste on insignificant books, hollow books, books that are there to please... We want books that cost… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.” — Daphne Kalotay Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote; La Mancha is not just geography; It is our personal territory— Terra Nostra.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“En mi época no había Best-Sellers y no podíamos prostituírnos. No había quien comprara nuestra prostitución.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
