Books Quote by Gregory Wolfe

Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become…

— Martha Nussbaum

“It's important that these people think of their adversaries specifically as assholes. That's what gives the modern rhetoric of polarization its singular stamp and…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined.…

— Heather O'Neill

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

— Northrop Frye

Literature, the study of literature in English in the 19th century, did not belong to literary studies, which had to do with Greek, Latin,…

— Robert Hass

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

— Frederick Lenz

There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting what you love, and you should keep…

— Elif Batuman

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

— Gaby Hoffmann

“If it were really up to me, I would study literature and creative writting. I would major it it, if I really could. But…

— Molly Lynn Robinson

To study history is to study literature.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Much as there are things about our own life stories that we can learn only from the systematic study of our dreams, there are…

— Elif Batuman

“The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case…

— Michel Houellebecq