America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. — William James Copy Share Image
“What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
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Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession,… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality… — Juan Rulfo Copy Share Image
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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I have a very ecumenical faith. I have a very inclusive faith. There's a quote I love from recovery literature that says,… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade,… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four… — John Barth 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
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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
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