Literature keeps the world from shrivelling up and…

“Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.”

— Ange Mlinko

I drink lots of water - being under hot lamps all day is very dehydrating.

— Sarah Alexander

Your body is made up of something like 60 percent water. So if you're constantly draining yourself and dehydrating yourself in your training sessions,…

— Cody Garbrandt

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as…

— Katherine Jenkins

The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for…

— Andre Alexis

“Literature, sharing a wonderful story, is what brings the world together.”

— Elizabeth Spann Craig

“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.”

— Henry James

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human…

— Ellen Ullman

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of…

— Joseph Brodsky

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro