Categories Quote by Anton Chekhov

I love things like the Criterion Collection DVDs. I think those are really well done. I like how far you can push the deluxe-ness…

— Phil Elverum

I'm feminist in that I believe that there should be equality between men and women. I get deeply frustrated on a daily basis by…

— Lauren Groff

“Real life is often more literary than the works of literature. That’s because it doesn’t have to appear credible.”

— Mikhail Iossel

“Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great…

— Dejan Stojanovic

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

— Mark Twain

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

— Mark Twain

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which…

— Paul Auster

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

— Tryon Edwards

I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of Mann's and…

— Philip Kitcher

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

— Sjon

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

— Michael Scott