Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.” — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
“You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Beginning in the 11th century, a less-fragmented Europe began to take shape, and what we now call medieval culture - in which… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door.… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I am fine with my books being categorized as African-American literature but I hope they are also considered Haitian-American literature and American… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
The two genres that probably take the most flack in literature - they are young adult and romance right now. I don't… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Mi čitamo knjige zato da bismo čitanjem proširili granice svog ličnog iskustva. Ako nam knjiga u tom pogledu ne daje apsolutno ništa,… — D. I. Pisarev Copy Share Image
There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means… — Lewis Henry Steiner Copy Share Image
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
“Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words 'competent,' 'finished,' 'problem-free,' fiction over which Writing-Program pre- and proscriptions loom… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Narratives are universally used for mediating emotional experiences. The purpose of aesthetic objects has been defined, in part, as 'the awakening, intensifying,… — Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen Copy Share Image
Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's… — John Gaddis Copy Share Image
Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself... — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.” — Lisa C. Taylor Copy Share Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
