The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature. — Tu Youyou Copy Share Image
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature — George Ade Copy Share Image
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“You can be involved with theory; you can teach or study theory; you can hate theory or be afraid of it. None… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
“Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple… — K. Lamb Copy Share Image
Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been… — Liao Yiwu Copy Share Image
I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I published my first work, I thought I would never be able to go back to Lebanon. I thought they'd arrest… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We're at economic war with China. It's in all their literature. They're not shy about saying what they're doing. — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
