Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself... — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of… — Michael P. Anderson Copy Share Image
I try not to be influenced when it comes to being creative, just in order to sustain my own voice and character.… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There are a lot of problems involved in comparative history. You never know if you're getting the comparisons weighted rightly, you're bound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I think we think that American books are funny or they're serious literature. But humor is subversive. When you add an element… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
“You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's… — John Gaddis Copy Share Image
Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Life is not a essay or speech instead its a Literature, where every end has a bew beginning. — Author Lekha Copy Share Image
He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.” — Lisa C. Taylor Copy Share Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
