Books Quote by Angie Thomas Download Open image “Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.” — Angie Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Difficult Issues Literature Role
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The black officer checks Daddy while his partner glances around at all of the onlookers. There's quite a few of us now. Ms. Yvette… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
The transition from unknown to known-in-publishing has been empowering but also challenging. It's an honor to know that people actually want to know what… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I really do hope 'The Hate U Give' provides mirrors for readers who don't often get them in books. I've had so many young… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South. — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Who the fuck complains about going to Harry Potter World? Or Butter Beer? Or wands?” — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“With King Lords, we had a whole bunch of folks who had our backs, no matter what. They bought us clothes and shit our… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
Bent Literary Agency had a Q&A on Twitter, and I took a chance and asked if the Black Lives Matter movement was an appropriate… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Has this situation made you fearful of cops?" she eventually asks. "I don't know," I say truthfully. "My uncle's a cop. I know not… — Angie Thomas 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
