For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don't speak our language, these folks coming from… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“A month later the law student leaves you for one of her classmates, tells you that it was great but she has… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about… — Hazel Rochman Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a… — William James Copy Share Image
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now.… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Absolutely No doubt: you are a great Literature, but if you Don't Have Been Any Assumptions About social situation, then have been… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed literature classes, and I took a fiction workshop for writing and analyzing at Curtis... I don't know if… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
