Books Quote by Northrop Frye

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

— Howard Nemerov

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Teaching how to read isn't the easiest thing.

— T. J. Oshie

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes…

— Jeanette Winterson

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

— Jorge Luis Borges

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

— Chinua Achebe

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

— Anonymous