Books Quote by Mark Slouka

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

— P. D. James

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But this is exactly why I read--and don't belong to a book group--because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it?…

— Peter Orner

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

— Arundhati Roy

“Literature, sharing a wonderful story, is what brings the world together.”

— Elizabeth Spann Craig

“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.”

— Henry James

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human…

— Ellen Ullman

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of…

— Joseph Brodsky

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren