If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
According to Muslim teachings, God first revealed His word in the Holy Qur'an to the prophet, Muhammad, during the month of Ramadan.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah ,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I grew up in Banaras on Kabir and other Hindi poets and then I got introduced to Faiz, Hasrat Mohani, Allama Iqbal… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other… — William Empson Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
“There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
