Books Quote by Friedrich Schlegel

“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It…

— Paul De Man

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities, can give…

— Italo Calvino

“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired by reading…

— Anonymous

“He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it”

— Joseph Heller

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even of any…

— David Foster Wallace

“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is…

— Doris Lessing

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

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

“Enjoyment of literature is achieved only by reading without expectation but with anticipation.”

— David McDonald