Books Quote by Jane Fletcher Geniesse

The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include…

— Robert Benchley

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

— Evelyn Waugh

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and…

— Frances Harper

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real…

— Alan Lightman

I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers…

— Alejandro Zambra

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

— Robert Stone

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

— Tucker Max

“A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to give them human meaning, words, too, demand…

— Benjamin Moser

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers…

— Salman Rushdie

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

— Nicole Krauss

“What a splendid thing is literature, what a splendid thing! It strengthens and instructs the heart of man. Literature is a sort of picture.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant':…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

— Donald R. Prothero

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

— Cate Blanchett