Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature. — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It just literally never an option!” — Lillian R. Melendez Copy Share Image
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. — Edward Blishen Copy Share Image
There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders.… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to… — Lars Gustafsson Copy Share Image
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
It is my sincere hope that Christopher Bryson's apparently thorough and comprehensive perusal of the scientific literature on the biological actions of… — Arvid Carlsson Copy Share Image
The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“This paying attention is the foundational act of empathy, of listening, of seeing, of imagining experiences other than one's own, of getting… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“As night falls silently all around, She carefully turns the last page.” — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Literature is the most legal drug of all. And the most peaceful way of escaping reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.” — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol. — Pamela Dean Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.” — Vanessa M. Chattman Copy Share Image
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