“Thomas Mann that “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Alexandra Johnson Copy Share Image
“Nicht alles, was langwierig ist, ist langweilig.' (Thomas Mann to his prospective publisher, in reference to the MS of the novel Buddenbrooks… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. —Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers” — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the religious formula to which life shapes itself. Whereas in the… — Clarissa Johal Copy Share Image
Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
My father read Günter Grass. He introduced me to German literature. I believe the first book I read by a German author… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“Vanderbilt sent me a series of picture postcards showing Hitler making a speech. The face was obscenely comic – a bad imitation… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not… — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impressed… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“...for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
“Except for Christianity, the Nazis reject as Jewish everything which stems from Jewish authors. This condemnation includes the writings of those Jews… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Darwin and Nietzsche were the common spiritual and intellectual source for the mean-spirited and bellicose ideological assault on progress, liberalism, and democracy… — Arno J. Mayer Copy Share Image
“The formerly absolute distinction between time and eternity in Christian thought--between nunc movens with its beginning and end, and nunc stans, the… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading--that is a good life. A day that… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
“Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. —Thomas… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If I express an interest in Giotto and yarn bombing, Bach and Lady Gaga, I am well-rounded. But if I read Thomas… — Megan Mulry Copy Share Image
“I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a writer.… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“(COMPARE) - Our birth is but a dream and a forgetting (Wordsworth) - ...so schläft er sehr rasch wieder ein, und schon… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
conclude, what Thomas Mann really wanted was a limited physical relationship with beautiful young men: the opportunity to gaze at them, an… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“MOM LIKED THE Ritalin. And she found it had a terrific and unexpected side effect—it helped her read. The day she first… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“Can the West regain its optimism? If the answer is no – and most of the portents are skewing the wrong way… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
