“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself” — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes. — Nathaniel Rich Copy Share Image
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and… — Hannah Woolley Copy Share Image
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same. — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
“Did she feel pity for me, did she want me to suffer? The next morning she led me to the coat closet,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“Each blank page is an invitation to write; filling the space, however, is a challenge.” — Paulo Ricardo Zargolin Copy Share Image
“There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
