Books Quote by Terry Eagleton

“Literature; not litterature.”

— Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick

“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

“Literature isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“Don’t learn literature from a history teacher.”

— Vijay Kedia

“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience…

— Martin Amis

“There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes.”

— Anonymous

“I just used a very simple way to explain what are deep ideas, and why can't that be literature?”

— Mian Mian

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

— Willie van Peer

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

“The man who takes up nothing but a newspaper, but reads it to think, to deduct conclusions from its premises, and form a judgment…

— Cecil B. Hartley