Books Quote by Patrick Hemingway Download Open image ““Literature is what intelligent people have instead of dope.”” — Patrick Hemingway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Intelligent people
“Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.” — A.M. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.” — Willie van Peer Copy Share Image
“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.” — Lisa C. Taylor Copy Share Image
“He liked to say that what makes literature is “inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than… — Paul Hendrickson Copy Share Image
“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“...literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence.… — John Carey Copy Share Image
“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But” — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
“Oh, but I’m a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the further it… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“In later life the idea of a moveable feast for Hemingway became something very much like what King Harry wanted St. Crispin's Feast Day… — Patrick Hemingway 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
