Activity Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

Change no man’s religion, change no man’s politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has and what…

— L. Ron Hubbard

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

— Theodore Roosevelt

In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough…

— Robert Alter

“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on the contrary,…

— Boris Pasternak

“The sense of literary creation is to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of future times; to find…

— Vladimir Nabokov

A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us…

— Boris Pasternak

“Revelation is a literary work composed with astonishing care and skill. We should certainly not doubt that John had remarkable visionary experiences, but he…

— Richard Bauckham

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

— Raymond Carver

“Indeed, the Bible has been cast adrift from its moorings and left to float on a sea of modern relativity. The “play” of meanings…

— Grant R. Osborne

“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary…

— Paul Louis Couchoud