What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that… — Peter James Copy Share Image
Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of… In literature, as in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m.… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue.… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this:… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated,… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
“I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for… — Paul De Man Copy Share Image
“I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for… — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
“When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence… — Todorov Tzvetan Copy Share Image
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Wooden scrabble letters offer a whole forest of literature, tiled down for easy shower installment. If you limit your use to only… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas… — Cao Yu Copy Share Image
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature. — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
At 19, while studying at St Xavier's College and majoring in literature and sociology, I got my first job as a copywriter.… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
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