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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

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that. — JJ Feild

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

It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. -Winnie-the-Pooh — A.A. Milne

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 way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — Ian McEwan

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

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

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

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. — David Brin

Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation ... — Northrop Frye

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature. — Louis Dudek

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. — Joan Collins

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

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories. — Mark Twain

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. — Romain Gary

Literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. — Amy Bloom

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. — William Ralph Inge

Half the time, in this life, you wouldn't know where you are nor when. There are moments of unpleasant liveliness. Tamp that the fuck down is best. — Kevin Barry

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day. — Mark Zero

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

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. — Rick Moody

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

Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that. — Walter Moers

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've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies. — Dawn Angelique

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

A skunk is walking by. Skunks don't hurry or hide. The dogs and cats pretend not to notice them. It is best not to. — Alice Provensen

The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature. — Amos Oz