I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age. — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
“The manner in which the exclusionary nature of the English language is used in knowledge prodution separates us as humans.” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wager we have a vast amount of literature out there that tends to the stories of men, so I've never really… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne,… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue.… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read… — Bernard Ramm Copy Share Image
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“It didn't help that I was never allowed to study anything remotely contemporary until the last year of university: there was never… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
