Books Quote by Lyudmila Ulitskaya

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly…

— Paulo Coelho

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there…

— George Harrison

“Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It is the…

— Arnold Bennett

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any…

— Julian Barnes

Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's…

— Ilan Stavans

“literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

— Thomas Bulfinch

“Great Literature is help for humans. It is medicine of the highest order. In a more aware culture, writers would be considered priests. And,…

— Alice Walker

Literature is the best way to overcome death.

— Ilan Stavans

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

— Rick Moody

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

— Dawn Angelique

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

— JJ Feild