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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it a positional… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.” — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature. — Cao Yu Copy Share Image
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were… — James Welch Copy Share Image
I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical… — James Welch Copy Share Image
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each… — James Welch Copy Share Image
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they… — James Welch Copy Share Image
I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller. — James Welch Copy Share Image
Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a… — James Welch Copy Share Image
My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that… — James Welch Copy Share Image
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as… — James Welch Copy Share Image
To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful. — James Welch Copy Share Image
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer.… — James Welch Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
