“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is… — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Music, dance, literature and the visual arts open up a rich and intensely rewarding world. It is a world that should not… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“Music is the highest art, no question. But literature is a friendlier one. It depends on us more, bores us more quickly,… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
“Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
“Yet any distinction between literature and life is misleading. Literature for me is not merely the best part of life; it is… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high.… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
“Now that his children had grown into their lives, their own children too, there was no one who needed more than the… — Mary Swan Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“We have learnt a lesson: words written in books, all of them, are lies. There are no exceptions. Words written on papers… — NisiOisiN Copy Share Image
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date… — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the… — William F. Albright Copy Share Image
Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved.… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Lucknow, as far as I have heard, is always known for its culture, literature and poetry. So it has set a cultural… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
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