Books Quote by Chad Harbach

Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.”

— Carolyn Weber

“The passion to teach, to share deeply experienced “lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.”

— Vera B. Williams

“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But”

— Michael Robotham

“A good tutor can make one’s college experience a revolutionary passage, to life as well as to literature; a bad one can make it…

— Steven Pressfield

“I thought it was amazing that I could get a diploma just for reading fiction. It was like being able to major in eating…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“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

“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.”

— Anonymous

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides. I was rather literary in college — one year I wrote a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is…

— Jonathan Stroud

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

— Jim Leach