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
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
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — Anonymous 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
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. — Harvey Pekar 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
“Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.” — Margaret Atwood 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
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain 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
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
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
“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
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
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
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
