Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable…

“Play With WORDS”

— P.M.Ashraf

“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself. At once…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was…

— Emily Dickinson

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

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