Books Quote by Frank Norris

“There should be no such thing as a class of females vulgarized by the necessity of finding daily amusement.”

— George Gissing

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

— James Russell Lowell

“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit,…

— Elizabeth Wein

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is…

— Northrop Frye

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

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

He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be…

— Katherine Paterson

Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.

— Howard Jacobson

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

— Kate Zambreno

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

— Robert Duvall

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

— Kwame Nkrumah