I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues. — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date… — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age. — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been a rower of two boats. I have been here physically and somewhere else mentally. My existence… — Sadia Hakim Copy Share Image
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.” — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse;… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
When you consider how many millions of workdays begin with hangovers great and small, it is mildly surprising to find how few… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
