#liter

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#heart #human #human heart #less #literature

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #literature #philosophy #art

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#experience

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself. ↗

— David Walliams

#books #children #demanding #i #just

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#best #digestive #exciting #literature #supper

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#experience

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#because #betraying #body #felt #horrifying

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. ↗

— Arna Bontemps

#anyone #colored #critic #dare #how

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#i #japanese #late #literature #missing

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death. ↗

— Amanda Coplin

#death #literature-quotes #death