Books Quote by Jane Austen

“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it…

— Jerome K. Jerome

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries.…

— Henry Miller

This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at…

— Michael Dirda

“This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language. It’s”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified…

— George Edward Woodberry

“Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language”

— Anthony Burgess

“The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of form, purity…

— Mark Twain

“[T]he narrative intelligences of our books should leave us feeling a bit pressed intellectually, a bit outmatched, amazed ultimately by the talent of the…

— Bryan Basamanowicz

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired…

— Donald Hall

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats

“It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world as it…

— Ray Bradbury

Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately…

— William Warburton