I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery". — John Gay Copy Share Image
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“YOUR BOREDOM IS YOUR PROBLEM," said Owen Meany. "IT'S YOUR LACK OF IMAGINATION THAT BORES YOU. HARDY HAS THE WORLD FIGURED OUT.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws. — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor. — Valerie Miner Copy Share Image
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere — John Donne Copy Share Image
The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film. — George Packer Copy Share Image
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