#liter

Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#love #love

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#imagination #literature #music #reading #science

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#writing-craft-talent #life

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

#betrays #both #error #exists #literature

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#literary-criticism #humor

Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#lgbt-literature #life

You worked every day to earn what's on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn't change it. I would not change it for anything. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#change #day #earn #every #every day

If you don't read my book, I'm not coming to your birthday party. ↗

— Tim Yeager

#literary-fiction #humor

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #imagination #literature #stories #humor

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #literature #lying #romance #humor