While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure. — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers. — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
“Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.” — Ange Mlinko Copy Share Image
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“So, fuck ’em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We’re GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Scholars of the Hebrew bible define something they call wisdom literature and I would say clearly the poetry of wisdom is something… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular"… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
“If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After… — Ryan Miller Copy Share Image
“Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
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