A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“The best books — like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games — can challenge us and… — Geoffrey Reiter Copy Share Image
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion;… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Part of dedicating your life to studying literature is realizing that storytelling is more than just make-believe and that make-believe is far… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere. — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music,… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation,… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
To me the truth comes first and then the literature. We in China are dealing with a dictatorial system and we writers… — Liao Yiwu Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our… — Martin Bashir Copy Share Image
“In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach;… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
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