“Whom boasts about his happiness, cause doesn't got it!” — Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words… — Dave DiGrazie Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The artist tries to show reason in experience and appearance – and lyric is the daily appearance, the commonplace dress, of reason.… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
“Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“When you've got a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it Crowd… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
