“WARNING: Brain dribble from a writer could cause good literature for the reader.” — Brick Marlin Copy Share Image
Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The object of all good literature is to purge the soul of its petty troubles.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it. — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.” — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes,… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“In one sense at any rate it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of what they say,… — M.C. Frank Copy Share Image
Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
“I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ways to be actively involved in the solution: 1. Consider adoption. 2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Let me be very clear. For me geography does not exist! I strongly object to the whole concept of “foreign literature”...and speaking… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
“literature is a way in which we can learn to live deeper lives -- husband with wife, parent with child, brother with… — Arthur Henry King Copy Share Image
“You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas.” — Colette Copy Share Image
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.” — Hillel F. Damron Copy Share Image
When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
