Book Quote by M. H. Abrams Download Open image “Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.” — M. H. Abrams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Inspirational Life Literature Love
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
Life is same as a book, you're holding a pen and writing it. Don't forget: never give your pen to someone else. — Unkown Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around” — David Lodge Copy Share Image
No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
