Books Quote by Anatoli Rybakov

Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

— William Butler Yeats

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period…

— Amy Harmon

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to…

— Robert Bringhurst

Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written…

— Annie Dillard

“Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent…

— Roberta Gellis

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used…

— Andrzej Wajda

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho…

— Richard Flanagan

“In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing…

— Dan Brown

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to…

— Laura Riding

“...grown up with very bad contemporary literature, and they find it much more fifficult to approach earlier writing than we do. The more we…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer