In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other” — Lance Conrad Copy Share Image
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's… — Byron Ortiz Copy Share Image
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you… — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“We are tied down, all our days and for the greater part of our days, to the commonplace. That is where contact… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
“Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Have no regrets. Every relationship leads you to where you're meant to be. Learn to be comfortable with being alone. Learn to… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“Great Literature is help for humans. It is medicine of the highest order. In a more aware culture, writers would be considered… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image