The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
We believe that games are a legitimate medium, as legitimate as literature, to talk about very dark and serious things. — David Cage Copy Share Image
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don't get me… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when… — Parker Harris Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed… — Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto Copy Share Image
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never… — James Frey Copy Share Image
When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
“Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic, the erotic and the tommy-rotic.” — W. Giese Copy Share Image
A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Coffee makes you alert, books make you awake. Booze makes you forget life, books bring you to life.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it. — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature. — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
