Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.
I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.
We may divide characters into flat and round.
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short, he has learnt his trade - that he should bother with literature at all. Poetry is not like surgery, a technique that can be copied. Every operation the poet performs is unique, and need never be done again.
A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.
The classic literature is always modern.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were.
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them
