Books Quote by E. M. Forster

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

— Democritus

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

— Terry Eagleton

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.

— Pankaj Mishra

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final…

— James Weldon Johnson

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

— Shirley Hazzard

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

— Doris Lessing

This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's…

— Meryl Streep

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

— William Butler Yeats

Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press…

— John Greenleaf Whittier