Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.” — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville Copy Share Image
Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to give them human meaning, words,… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature,… — Edith Schaeffer 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
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended.… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were… — azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
