In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents- were they the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity. — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature… — E. B. White 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
You look at the Koran or the Bible, they all tell the same stories. You see them as the stories of the… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Like literature, music can overwhelm you with sudden emotion, can move you to absolute sorrow or ecstasy; like literature, painting has the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be… — Sjon Copy Share Image
“With the windows in his top of the range Audi firmly in place we slowly baked ourselves and chatted over why my… — David Louden Copy Share Image
Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or… — Tom Cain Copy Share Image
Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not… — Mario Copy Share Image
The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“We are all one. Everything is meaningless, and yet at the same time meaningful. Everything matters and doesn’t matter just as much,"… — Gala.J Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity.” — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
