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More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
— Helen Keller
Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing
— Cynthia Kadohata
Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.
— D.H. Lawrence
Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person's vision of the future.
— Joshua Rogers
If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.
— The Prolific Penman
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
— Paul De Man
We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.
— Howard Nemerov
Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
— Sophocles
Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.
— Roman Payne
Education for women is something that has plagued the world for a very long time. When I saw this problem firsthand, I knew I had to write about it.
— Sahndra Fon Dufe
Anyway I have felt ashamed all the time I've been writing this story; so it's hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man's done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.
— Lorrie Moore
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
— Howard Nemerov
I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening - the time they call, for some accountable reason, 'between dog and wolf'.
— Alexander Pushkin
From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they want.
— Caroline Rody
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
— Doris Lessing
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.
— Salvador Plascencia
Only when, years later, I touched for the first time my lover's body did I realize that literature could sometimes fall short of the actural event.
— Alberto Manguel
Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.
— Teju Cole
To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
— Isaac D'Israeli
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time ... The wait is simply too long.
— Leonard Bernstein
We travel to ancient times by reading history books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen.
— Greg McVicker
This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
— Michael Ondaatje
Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa
Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder.
— Murong Xuecun
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
— William Carlos Williams
Jocelyn's stomach lodged another complaint with the management regarding the length of time since breakfast.
— Heidi Schulz
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The Bible is the greatest literature of all times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
In a time when women were almost silent or invisible in literature, Scripture affirms and celebrates women.
— Sarah Bessey
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
— Joseph Conrad
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
— Stephen Daldry
The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature-is comparative time.
— Yehuda Amichai
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
— Linda Sue Park
I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
We are only writing the history of our time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
— Julian Barnes
God is busy and has no time for you.
— Dejan Stojanovic
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.
— Georg Brandes
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.
— Joshua Cohen
We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own,
and literature...
Literature is a compass; — Thabo Jijana
Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
— Naguib Mahfouz
With each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
— J.M. Barrie
On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Without space, there is no time.
— Dejan Stojanovic
