“Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning… — W.K. Wimsatt Copy Share Image
I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I… — Brendan Coyle Copy Share Image
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“That you are a born again Christian does not mean you will automatically succeed except you follow God's principles. Never forget faith… — Patience Johnson 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 modern… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures. It is as if… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature –… — Peter Abbs Copy Share Image
Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Snad to bylo i tím, co všechno jsem slyšel od pana profesora, který se překonával v nadávání, žádný kočí nedovedl tak nadávat… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“We were nobodies, two young lit. students chatting away in a rickety old house in a small town at the edge of… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with… — Ed Kashi Copy Share Image
In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize… — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
“That's sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“Perhaps forgiveness wasn’t a singular event, but a progression, or better, a dance that took some figuring before you could perform the… — Bonnie Grove Copy Share Image
Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature.… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
