The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings,” wrote Paul. “Brain science shows this claim… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“C. S. Lewis said it this way: “In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. . .… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Great literature remains great when it says new things to new generations, and the loops of a knot quite nicely parallel the… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
As far as people communicating with each other well I think that listening is important. You know really trying to read between… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I’m not interested in… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial… — David E. Fessenden Copy Share Image
Absolutely No doubt: you are a great Literature, but if you Don't Have Been Any Assumptions About social situation, then have been… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature, — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself...I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.” — John Sayles Copy Share Image
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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