Books Quote by Tom Clancy

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to…

— Laura Riding

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What…

— Susan Sontag

Literature is the immortality of speech.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

— Georges Bataille

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case…

— Michel Houellebecq

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with…

— Elbert Hubbard

“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

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down…

— Sinclair Lewis

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Literature is the history of the soul.

— Barry Hannah

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more…

— John Steinbeck