Age Quote by Gerald Brenan Download Open image “The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.” — Gerald Brenan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Books Literature Please Tests Writing
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth;… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And… — Eliot Schrefer Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and adult literature… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.” — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
