Hermann Hesse Quotes
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.Hermann Hesse
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua -
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. Forster -
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
Tayari Jones -
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
Edmund White -
I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
Maggie Grace
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil Jose -
My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
Ian Hart -
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Barry Commoner -
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
Vikas Swarup -
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
Carlisle Floyd
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo -
Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
Barry Jenkins -
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
Abel Ferrara -
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot -
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.
Kate Bernheimer -
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Carlos Fuentes
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Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.
Ella Leya -
I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.
Rima Fakih -
With comedy, don't try to be funny. That's really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with other characters, and try to make it as real as possible. It will come out funny.
Ariel Winter -
I started to sing after high school, and I may have dreamed about being Randy Travis a time or two.
Cole Swindell -
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.
Hermann Hesse