“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so… — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to… — Peter Gizzi Copy Share Image
In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has… — Dorothea Singer Copy Share Image
There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them… — A. D. Patel Copy Share Image
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
“Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
