Literature Quotes
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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There is no such thing as children’s literature.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.
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Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.
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I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
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As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
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Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.
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You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
