Books Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“I want him to be my Edward -- taking care of me, always. Watching over me, day or night, unsleeping. Keeping me safe, by…

— Ellen Hopkins

“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.”

— John Williams

“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all…

— Jane Austen

“Edward was dead. The magnitude of the news reverberated through me, thickening the air. His suffering was over. Yet what had he left behind?…

— Ella March Chase

“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

“Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the…

— Ian McEwan

“Life of Edward”

— Margaret Carradus

“The reign of Edward VI was a singularly merciful one for those harsh times. Now that we are taking leave of him let us…

— Mark Twain

“I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you are incompetent…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Edward was always a good listener, since his own form of self-expression then consisted in making uneartly and to me quite meaningless sounds on…

— Vera Brittain

“For the last couple of years, I've always started in the same place. It's a little room, more like a little hallway, off one…

— Melissa Jensen