Academic Quote by Alan Bennett

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

— James Joyce

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to…

— Nick Hornby

Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

— Magnus Carlsen

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

— Frederick Lenz

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

— William Landay

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we…

— Italo Calvino

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What…

— Susan Sontag

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

— Anonymous

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster