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
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
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
I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I'm a massive reader. I actually really love to collect antiquarian literature and I love that my job allows me to travel… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, their writing carries baggage from… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“When The Journal of Words compiled its list of the one hundred best novels written in English, do you know that Pride… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
I think The Magicians takes these conventional ideas from this Christian literature of good vs. evil and it sort of shakes it… — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield." Sean… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense… But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nothing in this life is certain aside from death, taxes and English literature graduates writing in the Guardian and spoiling your enjoyment… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I believe in literature which ties people together, that highlights what people have in common, despite the differences - color, sexual orientation,… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
