I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I go bananas when I hear an opinion that goes against well-established political science literature. — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.” — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I've developed this love of trashy Russian literature. There's a women's detective series that I was obsessed with for a while, written… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I was never ideological in any sense, or a slave to any particular politics or religion. My solace and my inspiration always… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of… — Margaret Mazzantini Copy Share Image
I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence...it will be Nirvana on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I’m not interested in… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“In the infinite universe of literature there are always other avenues to explore, some brand-new and some exceedingly ancient, styles and forms… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance.” — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book! — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.” — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol. — Joseph Finder Copy Share Image
When true legends unite ,And for a common cause they fight .Then its them- the Gods , who must fear their might — Kevin Knight Copy Share Image
One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')” — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
