Great Quote by Sarah Orne Jewett

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

literature is the record of our discontent.

— Virginia Woolf

Literature is the history of mind.

— Ally Mbululo

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

— Thomas McGuane

Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

— Natalie Goldberg

“...grown up with very bad contemporary literature, and they find it much more fifficult to approach earlier writing than we do. The more we…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

— Oscar Wilde

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that…

— Lee Siegel

We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

— Mohsin Hamid