His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In… — George Packer Copy Share Image
In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.” — Megan Frazer Blakemore Copy Share Image
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Collect memories, not things. Fill-up dreams, not pockets. Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be.” — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure,… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
