Attitude Quote by Philip Kitcher

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

— Stephan Jenkins

“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of…

— Henry James

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

— Gaston Bachelard

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

— Thomas Carlyle

“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

— William Empson

I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really sithere and…

— Harvey Keitel

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

— Paula Fox

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a gorgeous poem!…

— Amal El-Mohtar

It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the…

— Leni Zumas

“much the way the proximity between real and virtual feeling in the concept of tone can produce anxiety for the literary theorist.”

— Sianne Ngai