#liter

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#authoritative #community #expert #global #illiteracy

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar. ↗

— James Payn

#bus #cultivating #driven #driving #exceptional

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#beauty-in-literature #freedom #freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#facts #literature #science

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#because #been #children #deeply #drive

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#collect #existed #form #friends #graphic

I have no literary fears. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#i #literary

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#experience #gives #history #life #literature

The crown of literature is poetry. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#literature #poetry

I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more. ↗

— Brad Garrett

#directors #feel #gel #grateful #group