“Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.” — Sean O'Faolain Copy Share Image
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.” — John Middleton Murry Copy Share Image
My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excuse the use of that second… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled down the center… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
