I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery". — John Gay Copy Share Image
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor. — Valerie Miner Copy Share Image
The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the… — William F. Albright Copy Share Image
“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The starting point for English work must be the ability to handle effectively their own experience. Oral work, written work and the… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life,… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of… — Graeme Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental… — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen,… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
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