Also Quote by Deborah Harkness

Scholarship cannot do without literature… It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get…

— Woodrow Wilson

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

— Elizabeth Berg

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic…

— Alain de Botton

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and…

— Simon Raven

“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science.…

— David Nicholls

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

— Annie Dillard

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of,…

— George Steiner

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

— Jimenez Lai

“Academics always feel that they deserve more. (Roberto Bolano) Reading and enjoying fine literature is a highly cultivated and refined activity, whereas writing it…

— Kim Leine

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed…

— Joseph Brodsky

in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we…

— Alison Lurie