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The habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
— Siri Hustvedt
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.
— Anton Chekhov
Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
— Truman Capote
Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.
— Anthony Esolen
The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.
— Ndiritu Wahome
The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.
— John Steinbeck
The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
— Jamie L. Harding
Life will be empty without great stories to read.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.
— Josh Hutcherson
The best dancer is the one who isn't even aware that she is dancing!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people ...
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What great literature does best is to show us those moments which make life worth living.
— Marty Rubin
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do all the best, and let God do the rest
— Alitt Susanto
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
— James Russell Lowell
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.
— Anna Quindlen
Reading great works of literature, discovering poetry, and listening to the best composers are all ways that we learn to love the Creator more.
— Jennifer A. Marshall
Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation ...
— Northrop Frye
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.
— Katharine Lee Bates
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.
— Marisha Pessl
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
— Romain Gary
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
— William Ralph Inge
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
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.
— Robert Duvall
The best brothel-scenes in literature have been written, without exception, by pious believers or pious unbelievers.
— George Orwell
Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
— Randy Thornhorn
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.
— Mark Twain
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
— Simone De Beauvoir
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
— Samuel Johnson
I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
— Jo Walton
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.
— Madame De Stael
I have never had the lust to meet famous authors; the best of them is in their books.
— Michael Gold
Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.
— Joshua Rogers