(1021 quotes found)
“Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.”
Thomas Sowell
“Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.”
Salman Rushdie
“What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.”
Henry Miller
“What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.”
Jonathan Miller
“There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.”
Stephen Stills
“Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasure—the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale.”
David C. McCullough
“Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.”
Gore Vidal
“Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.”
Camilo Jose Cela
“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government”
Milton Friedman
“It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.”
Nikki Giovanni
