In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature. — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.” — Willie van Peer Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I always think of Ireland as a place for complex ideas and prose. I like Irishness. I like Irish culture and Irish… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron Copy Share Image
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is… — Vance Palmer Copy Share Image
I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“You’re a literary person. If you ask me, there are passages in the Bible that a lover of literature has to appreciate,… — Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen Copy Share Image
As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary... — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
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