The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow… But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Literature "has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads.” — Romaine Gary Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Is not literature meant to speak of our being a thousand different kinds of things, at times creating even this diversity? If… — Peter Esterhazy Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I was in the final year of my English Literature degree at Hindu College, Delhi University, when I came to Mumbai. I… — Tisca Chopra Copy Share Image
Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“God's word will produce with your level of understanding. The much you can understand it, the more wisdom you are privileged to… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life,… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.” — John Sayles Copy Share Image
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written expressly for children. The other is written for everyone, including… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“I didn't hit her, man, what happened was that Maria was obsessed with the Marquis de Sade and wanted to try the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
