Books Quote by Gregory Wolfe

“...literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence.…

— John Carey

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science.…

— David Nicholls

literature is the record of our discontent.

— Virginia Woolf

“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…

— William Hurrell Mallock

Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author curses like…

— Howard Jacobson

“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his…

— George Orwell

“Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy…

— Helen Keller

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the…

— Northrop Frye

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of…

— Lionel Trilling