#liter

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. ↗

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#company #desires #literature #longings #beauty

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#literature #philosophy #freedom

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. ↗

— Thomas McGuane

#literature #writing #writing-life #death

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. ↗

— George Ade

#current #keep #literature #more #mortals

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

#artist #authoritarianism #corruption #embarrass #expose

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#end #experience #in the end #literary #material

A man is literally what he thinks. ↗

— James Allen

#man #thinks

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#been #compared #condescended #i #indian

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. ↗