We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our... →
George Ripley
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in... →
Tom Robbins
I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.
Julia Roberts
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale
Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.
Gretchen Rubin
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way... →
Salman Rushdie
American literature has always been immigrant.
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes... →
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on... →
Stan Sakai
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives... →