There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The goals of literature are multifold, but creating nice, positive protagonists that you'd want to grab drinks with or invite home to… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about the lack… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
“I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is… — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“He gave it its present name, and lived here shut up: day and night poring over the wicked heaps of papers in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Which is probably one of the reasons those of us who love contemporary fiction love it as we do. We’re alone with… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“I held Angie Luna in that room for hours, and I remember the different times we made love like epochs in a… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.” — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Copy Share Image
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it. — Mabel Robinson Copy Share Image
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen. — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
“Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality...” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Literature is a toy for adults; my books are toys for adults who have read Lautréamont.” — césar aira Copy Share Image
Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
