American literature Quote by Laura Bush Download Open image “There is nothing political about American literature.” — Laura Bush ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare American literature Books Literature Political Politics
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I've always liked walking; that's one of my favorite things to do, and I try to walk every day. [In Washington, D.C.] I can't… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Don't start smoking. It's much harder to stop than it is not to start at all. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
When I heard that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined - when I heard that, I knew. The other thing that's… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more, and stagger… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“Don Raimondo tells me what he can’t tell them. “The emptiness on the surface of a wall left by a sold bookshelf is the… — Erri DeLuca Copy Share Image
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Sociologically, politically, psychologically, spiritually, it was never enough for James Baldwin to categorize himself as one thing or the other: not just black, not… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
