Books Quote by Charles Baxter

“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.”

— Charles Baxter

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

— Cynthia Ozick

Remarks are not literature.

— Gertrude Stein

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

— Northrop Frye

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

— Anonymous

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

— Northrop Frye

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

— Terry Riley

You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

— Anonymous

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of…

— Francine Prose

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

— Aidan Chambers

There is no such thing as children’s literature.

— N. V. M. Gonzalez