There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him,… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to… — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime,… — Bill Bennett Copy Share Image
Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial… — David E. Fessenden Copy Share Image
For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy… his arranged marriage between the Elder Edda and… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
“Spend the glittering moonlight there Pursuing down the soundless deep Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair, Or floating lazy, half-asleep. Dive and… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“That cloak of love you were wearing—he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance,… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and… — Henry Jenner Copy Share Image
Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
