Academy Quote by Harold Bloom

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the…

— Harold Bloom

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may…

— Dorothy Allison

The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least…

— Garth Greenwell

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of…

— Ben Hecht

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

— Jack Dee

My own view is that the arts are neither superior nor inferior to anything else that goes on in schools.

— Michael Rosen

Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repression, malice,…

— Noam Chomsky

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who…

— Margaret Atwood

The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're…

— Billy Collins

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against…

— Walter Pater

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to…

— Anonymous