Books Quote by Terry Eagleton

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature:…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“When historians and literary scholars talk about the classical heritage, or the legacy to Western civilization from antiquity, they are primarily thinking of four…

— Norman F. Cantor

“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It…

— Paul De Man

“...begged them as we read our literary texts, only to listen. To wrench open - it takes an effort of will - the portcullis…

— Rick Gekoski

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

— Aidan Chambers

“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture simply fostered…

— Camilo Gomes Jr

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as…

— David Plotz

I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab…

— Eric Kandel

“Reading literature makes us better people.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author curses like…

— Howard Jacobson

“You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most. Memory is…

— Martin Walser

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski