The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Unjustified ambition kills value, Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air. If there is nothing else, it… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
“if philosophy is mountain climbing then literature is an anti-gravity parade I love thee like a leper colony loves to make a… — Carl-John X Veraja Copy Share Image
This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs. — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Have you ever reached to a point where you asked God if the assignment is really from Him. In your account you… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the… — William James Copy Share Image
I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.” — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Kafka’s The Castle came to mind, a book I had not read but that fell into that category of literature that culture… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It’s not lit, it’s literature. Lit is something a book can be, after you’ve decided to burn it. (I suggest you start… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
