Books Quote by Harold Bloom

It's hard to know what [literature] will end up being timeless and what will be something that doesn't translate into the future, especially with…

— Rick Riordan

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

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much.…

— Doris Lessing

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more…

— John Steinbeck

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

— Harold Bloom

Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of…

— Gao Xingjian

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply,…

— Kingsley Amis

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so…

— Kurt Vonnegut