Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that. — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have grown up in a family where cinema, literature and music are highly valued. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
“It’s only literature, I know, but it does something, or at least it says something.” — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What a splendid thing is literature, what a splendid thing! It strengthens and instructs the heart of man. Literature is a sort… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle;… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic,… — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across -… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“An artist is the magician put among men to gratify--capriciously--their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. — James Payn Copy Share Image
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
