Allusions Quote by Maria Popova

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

— Mark Bernstein

“Behind every text footnote is a file folder with all the hardcopy documentation needed to document every sentence in this book at a moment’s…

— Edwin Black

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will…

— Mark Bernstein

“As more journals moved online, scholars actually cited fewer articles than they had before.”

— Nicholas Carr

“We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.”

— Mark Frost

“No one has claim to originality in literature; all writers are more or less faithful amanuenses of the spirit, translators and annotators of pre-existing…

— James E. Irby

“the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page”

— Peter Ackroyd

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

— Woody Allen

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter,…

— James Baldwin

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall