In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality". — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation."… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They… — Tim Radford Copy Share Image
I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James Copy Share Image
