Books Quote by Peter Greenaway

“I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable, the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature.”

— Peter Greenaway

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

— Peter Greenaway

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

— Julia Glass

“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind…

— G.K. Chesterton

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.

— Gore Vidal

“Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites the love…

— Petrarch

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves…

— George Williamson

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the…

— A. E. Housman

Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case…

— Kenneth Tynan

I think The Magicians takes these conventional ideas from this Christian literature of good vs. evil and it sort of shakes it up and…

— Hale Appleman

“In one sense at any rate it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind…

— G.K. Chesterton