Kam Williams Quotes
Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.
Kam Williams
Quotes to Explore
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
Naguib Mahfouz
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
Tayari Jones
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. Lawrence
Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
Walter Cronkite
Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
F. Sionil Jose
I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
Sam Worthington
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
Edmund White
It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
Idris Elba
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
Nathaniel Philbrick
I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
Wendy Cope
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
Patrick Rothfuss
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
Nathan Myhrvold
Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!
Fei Fei Sun
I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White
