Books Quote by Alister E. McGrath

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

— Ernest L. Boyer

Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the…

— Amos Oz

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

— Anonymous

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.…

— Laurie Anderson

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

— Wendy Lesser

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired…

— Donald Hall