I have no literary approach - except to literature.

My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably…

— Leland Ryken

“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?”

— Hugh Howey

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

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for…

— Wole Soyinka

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together of writers…

— John Metcalf

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop… Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,…

— Ellen Glasgow

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,…

— Brad Warner

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

— Robert Duvall

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

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“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

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita