Books Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Feelings Literature Sentiments
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want. — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
