If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.” — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
Literature is the most legal drug of all. And the most peaceful way of escaping reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to… — Marita Bonner Copy Share Image
“...literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principal that there is nothing interesting to be said… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
“Sence and Sensibility, for instance, came out in three separate volumes, as did Pride and Prejudice (so the next time you read… — Amy Elizabeth Smith Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I was hoping for. Some small praise, I guess. A bit of encouragement. I didn't get it. Miss… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
I have no control, of course, over how I'm marketed. It's a sad thing, though, that so many people perceive literature to… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“I will not mention the name (and what bits of it I happen to give here appear in decorous disguise) of that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting'… — Nadia Abu El Haj Copy Share Image
“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane,… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
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