Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of… — William James Copy Share Image
The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The American's literature is all about being hot and sexy, inspiring a girl and going to bed with her. It focuses on… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“most common people oft he market-place much prefer light literature to improving books. The problem is, that so many romances contain slanderous… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But… — Blake Mills Copy Share Image
I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Oh, I am very old fashioned about my literature taste. I like Henry James. I like George Elliot. I like Dostoyevsky. I… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image
“The literature hardly helps. You remember it only when you are well, healthy, and in a positive state of mind. And you… — Girdhar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists.… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Yet, the man never goes slow! Feted against all the odds. How? Nobody knows. Undeterred, unabated, yet uncharted he goes...” — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I am happy that I could contribute my bit and enable the use of colloquial Telugu words in mainstream films and literature. — Tanikella Bharani Copy Share Image
“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet… — Andrew Denton Copy Share Image
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
At 19, while studying at St Xavier's College and majoring in literature and sociology, I got my first job as a copywriter.… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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