“Irony alone is damning. The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.” — Anne Garréta Copy Share Image
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical. — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!” — Veronika Carnaby Copy Share Image
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out… — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history,… — Clement Mok Copy Share Image
My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
“If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
With loves light wings did I o'perch this walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out. - Romeo — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them. — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world? — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.” — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
“The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.” — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
“You don’t see the point of English literature?’ ‘I don’t see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
My comic timing is completely based on Pu La's literature, his style of writing and the wittiness between the lines. — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
“[...] imaginative literature situates itself somewhere between truth and meaning [...]” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
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