Beautiful Quote by Langston Hughes

“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against the most…

— Minae Mizumura

Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,

— Jacqueline Woodson

“I realized that my mother had not taught us the tribal language because she knew her children would not be strong enough to carry…

— Sherman Alexie

Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the…

— Mildred D. Taylor

Books are the curse of the human race.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“To speak without shame about books we haven’t read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy…

— Pierre Bayard

“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other”

— Lance Conrad

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary.…

— Rita Mae Brown

“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone…

— Franz Kafka

“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great…

— John Leonard