Books Quote by Thomas Carlyle

I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected? Who am…

— Common

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate…

— Lynne Tillman

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them…

— Alan Bennett

“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

“Look at it this way: if you were convinced that the world had forgotten how to think and teach, if you believed it had…

— Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera

“In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.”

— John Middleton Murry

I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about…

— Steven Heighton

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

— Douglas Sirk

I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I…

— Patricia Wentworth

“The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them…

— Alan Bennett

Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection…

— Brad Pitt

Thought will not work except in silence.

— Thomas Carlyle