Books Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Oh literature is a wonderful thing, Varenka, a very wonderful thing: I discovered that from being with those people the day before yesterday. It…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily…

— John Dewey

“Literature is an art, and the essence of all art is mood.”

— Salvador de Madariaga

“Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the…

— Lyudmila Ulitskaya

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

— E. M. Forster

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.

— Robert Mortimer

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey

“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But”

— Michael Robotham

“what differentiates a good anything from a great anything you care to think about (business, movie, hotel, product, blog, book, packaging, design, app, talk,…

— Bernadette Jiwa

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

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

— P. T. Barnum