Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol. — Pamela Dean Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.” — Vanessa M. Chattman Copy Share Image
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I think that the idea that there's such a thing as a national literature that's somehow uniquely expressive of a national soul… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context,… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it comes to the supernatural, there's no… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination… — William James Copy Share Image
It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
