Books Quote by Amy Joy Download Open image ““Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.”” — Amy Joy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Culture Literature Reading Schooling
“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It… — Paul De Man Copy Share Image
“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities, can give… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.” — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort… — Margaret Mazzantini Copy Share Image
“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.” — Shankar Lamichhane Copy Share Image
“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.” — Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake Copy Share Image
“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.” — Amy Joy Copy Share Image
“That’s the way life is sometimes: you can fix things up, but you can’t make them all better.” — Amy Joy Copy Share Image
“Some say that it also means that everything contains the seeds of its own destruction... or redemption - depending on if you are a… — Amy Joy Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
