Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When lion saddled for hunt, he outfitted by bow and arrow to guard himself” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. — Anonymous 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
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous 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
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a lot of problems involved in comparative history. You never know if you're getting the comparisons weighted rightly, you're bound… — Anonymous 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
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always… — Anonymous 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
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a… — Anonymous 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
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
