Books Quote by Mark Edmundson

“Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.”

— Semen Frank

“And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its…

— Richard Mitchell

“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.”

— Anonymous

“An idea is a very powerful thing, and political ideas or religious ideas or economic ideas have always affected and often controlled the courses…

— J.C. Wylie

“Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an…

— William Everson

“Ideas and their creators run the world…one’s place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds...”

— William Ellery Channing

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in its own…

— Wole Soyinka

“His books commingled democratically, united under the all-inclusive flag of Literature. Some were vertical, some horizontal, and some actually placed behind others. Mine were…

— Anne Fadiman

“Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution”

— Jeremy Aldana

“subgenres are products of the writers’ urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic”

— William Gibson