Books Quote by Edith Hamilton

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

— Edith Hamilton

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

— Bernard Berenson

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

— Edwidge Danticat

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.…

— Laurie Anderson

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe…

— Emma Thompson

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

— Alfred de Vigny

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader…

— Louis L'Amour

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and…

— Chris Crutcher

Literature is the memory of humanity.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer