“That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.” — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly Copy Share Image
“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.” — Shankar Lamichhane Copy Share Image
To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness. — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
“Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.” — Jennie Chancey Copy Share Image
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . .… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
They call us romantics, weak, stupid, sentimental idealists, perhaps because we have some faith in the good which exists even in our… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as life. It's as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview,… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
“Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours. Who would we be if… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Not sonnets, Naskar Sonnets (2883) I repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If I understand you rightly, you had formed a surmise of such horror as I have hardly words to-- Dear Miss Morland,… — Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Copy Share Image
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to. — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.” — Amy Joy Copy Share Image
“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century. — Douglas Gresham Copy Share Image
They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something. — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
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