There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist… — Steve House Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating,… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
I'm not a good writer, and I don't care. Unfortunately, after I left college, I didn't have time much for literature. I… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . .… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
They call us romantics, weak, stupid, sentimental idealists, perhaps because we have some faith in the good which exists even in our… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and… — Hannah Woolley Copy Share Image
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense)… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
“Like a tree or a river, a story can have many branches or tributaries—but its power comes from the root, the origin… — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
