| Author |
Quotes |
| Aharon Appelfeld | The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. |
| Albert Camus | A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. |
| Aldous Huxley | The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. |
| Aldous Huxley | In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. |
| Alexandre Dumas Fils | Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes |
| Allan Bloom | There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. |
| Alvin Toffler | To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. |
| Andre Gide | Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. |
| Andre Maurois | In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others. |
| August Wilhelm Von Schlegel | Literature is the immortality of speech. |
| B f Skinner | A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. |
| Ben Johnson | I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. - Every Man In His Humor. |
| Anonymous | A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. |
| Anonymous | When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. |
| Bob Perelman | University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. |
| Charles Churchill | Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. |
| Charles Dickens | I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. |
| Charles Simic | Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. |
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