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It's literature that provides solace to hearts wounded by man made divisions of religion, race, class, gender and class... — Neelam Saxena Chandra

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents. — Anthony Horowitz

A Wasn't just isn't. He just isn't present. But you ... You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant! — Dr. Seuss

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book. — K. Lamb

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood. — Edvard Munch

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale. — Phyllis Rose

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. — T. S. Eliot

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want. — David Daiches

Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing. — Petra March

Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye. — Shilpa Sandesh

Literature is art and art is about passion. It's about drive. It's about beauty. How can you slide through a semester of that and not be moved by it? — Kristen Ashley

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him. — Madeleine L'Engle

The universe is God's son. — Dejan Stojanovic

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift. — Milan Kundera

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anton Chekhov

The evening uneven sea glimmered with slices of dairy moon, the surface waves a shifting brew of dark tea stirred by an atmospheric spoon. — Neale Osborne

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it. — Louis Menand

A rich man's soup - and all from a few stones. It seemed like magic! — Marcia Brown

We work all our lives to be who we become. And, it's who we become that determines what becomes of us. — Melinda West Seifert

A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise. — Ram Vignesh

I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal. — Ralph Webster

In my mind's eye — William Shakespeare

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. — C.S. Lewis

We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect. — Mo Willems

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of. — Nikki Rowe

Religion [...] may be seen as literature that has succeeded beyond any writer's wildest dreams. — Jack Miles

That's the beauty and the curse of the 'engrafted word'... it all comes down to interpretation. — Amy Marie

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature. — Tadao Ando

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — C.S. Lewis

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy. — Abhijit Naskar

Reading is for pleasure; it's not another form of social competition. Leave those literary Joneses to it. — Heather Reyes

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere. — Jane Levy

It's very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that's something that resonates for me. — Tom McCarthy

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. — Justin Cronin

Nothing in life comes easy and without a price. The trick is learning to never give up. — Michael Alexander Beas

Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that? — Heidi Schulz

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. — Christopher Hitchens

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

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. — Marty Rubin

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful. — Anne Rice

Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity. — Scott Farris

We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin. — Mary Karr

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy. — Joanne Harris

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. — Dejan Stojanovic

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. — Jane Austen

If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need. — Arinn Dembo

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. — Storm Jameson

We all R failures that's why V need #CHILDREN to fulfill D needs of #Society,#Nation,#Worlds , so that we can live the same old selfish way — Tushar Upreti

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture. — Darin Strauss

That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it. — Sophie Divry

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain. — James Geary

I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real) — Tara Michener

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. — Gao Xingjian

Love that Literature. — S McPherson

(the modern writer's aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole. — Sean O'Faolain

Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard — Maud Hart Lovelace

In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry. — Garth Risk Hallberg

The world is God's salvation. — Dejan Stojanovic

Come out of that closet, baby, the air's so bright and disco out here. — Suzette Mayr

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature. — Cristina Henriquez

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. — Micah Mattix

My master's degree was in English literature. — Sylvia Browne

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. — Mohsin Hamid

Writing. Not writing. Twin Terrors. Putting one's mother into words ... It may have been easier to put her in her grave. — William H Gass

It's not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom — Koji Suzuki

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? — Holly Black

When you read great literature, you become a thousand men and yet still be yourself. — C.S. Lewis

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature. — Jim Leach

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville

Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large. — Kevin Kwan

I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case. — Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Friday night's alright for fighting
Saturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us. — Ralph Webster

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Each man's memory is his own private literature — Aldous Huxley

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature. — Thomas M. Disch

None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are. — Ethel Turner

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature. — Susan Sontag

To paraphrase Antonio Gramsci, cynicism of intellect; promise of the present. — Bill Grigsby

Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant. — Marlon James

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science. — Daniel Tammet

In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness. — Andrew O'Hagan

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis. — Edwidge Danticat

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read. — Evan Esar

[Hawthorne's] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while. — D.H. Lawrence

You know, I don't think your brother dislikes you as much as you think. After all, he gave up a kingdom to stay with his family. — C.J. Milbrandt

Bob, I am grateful for your
Three letter name.
It's another reminder of home
Of a world predictable
Of a life I had. — Wilfred Waters

The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty. — Sinclair Lewis

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. — Ezra Pound

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news. — George Bernard Shaw

The trick set me up. It's that simple. — Shadez

There is no such thing as children's literature. — N. V. M. Gonzalez

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature. — Koren Zailckas