If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“This is nice,' Melody said, picking up a red leather box with a vintage watch inside. 'Yes, it is nice. It's the… — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest Copy Share Image
“But those who believe that flowers grow in vases don't understand anything about literature. The library has now become her first-aid kit,… — Antonio Iturbe Copy Share Image
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one… — John Green Copy Share Image
“...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
It's a real skill to take a piece of literature and make it in cinema. It's quite a different form, and I… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience? Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that… — Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Because it's my first language, all the literature that I've read and all the things that I've been inspired by that have… — Gwenno Copy Share Image
“If a terrified bird comes to rest on your hands or shoulders, it is your obligation to become a tree. Do not… — Sadia Hakim Copy Share Image
As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“C. S. Lewis said it this way: “In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. . .… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music. — Lester Beall Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same. — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
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