I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time. — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The 'Classics Illustrated' series was an excellent primer in literature, and I also really enjoyed Zachary Hamby's mythology books for teens. — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about… — David Strathairn Copy Share Image
The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The beautiful unruliness of literature is what makes it so much fun to wander through: you read Jane Austen and you say,… — Kathy Fish Copy Share Image
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
“Modernist literature with all its vast apparatus was an instrument, a form of perception, and once absorbed, the insights it brought could… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
“It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a… — Janet Beizer Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul. — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.” — Benjamin J. Carey Copy Share Image
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I write things that I love I write things that I hate but the problem with what I write is I poorly… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
“When is talking about literature not an evasion of the real question at hand? Although a nice-enough evasion.” — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
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