I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have… — Margaret Bald Copy Share Image
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of… — Len G. Murray Copy Share Image
I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's… — Margaret Bald Copy Share Image
I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to… — Peter Gizzi Copy Share Image
All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
“In the infinite universe of literature there are always other avenues to explore, some brand-new and some exceedingly ancient, styles and forms… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“ALI He was butterfly and bee. In the ring, he floated and stung. In 1967, Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, refused to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The obsession with past trauma refracts World Lit’s sense of belatedness, even when the genre advertises its contemporaneity. You can argue that… — The editors n+1 Copy Share Image
“Although the disappearance of the true wildwood [in the British Isles] occurred in the Neolithic period, before humanity began to record its… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“considering how thorough-going was the capture of the minds of the Blacks, it is really not surprising that so many Negro scholars… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
“Heartache may be bad for the soul, but it's great for bookshops. It's when we are at our lowest romantic ebb that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Dreams, always dreams! and the more ambitious and delicate is the soul, the more its dreams bear it away from possibility. Each… — Aleister Crowley Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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