I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church. — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
When you consider how many millions of workdays begin with hangovers great and small, it is mildly surprising to find how few… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
“The money you are looking for is not in any country, phd or your designer outlook, it is in wisdom. Solomon never… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
“A shadow moved in the street below and my mind became focused on the movement. This shadow caught my attention because it… — Eli Wilde Copy Share Image
Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“We have evolved a new cosmogony of literature, Boris and I. It is to be a new Bible - The Last Book.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I want to yell about it most days and stop strangers in the street to share my outrage. But my mind is… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age. — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The thing about the literature of any country is that it is a sort of climate that one breathes,” — Jane Fletcher Geniesse Copy Share Image
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
