The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Literature's father figures can only loom, intimidate, and inspire for so long before they must be slain by their offspring.” — Larry McCaffery Copy Share Image
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one’s own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics.… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and… — S. Ansky Copy Share Image
A large body of literature suggests that wellbeing is intimately linked to attachment - not only to other people, but also to… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
For me, literature is the daughter of music: a bit heavy and more level headed than its mother. Literature submits to the… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role… — Arinn Dembo Copy Share Image
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a question… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close… — Penelope Mitchell Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
