#literature

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#belong #convict #education #forever #got

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#experience #literature #lived #ourselves #sole

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#force #freedom #heart #interference #intrusion

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#believe #day #every #every day #four

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#classics #exposed #focus #great #guys

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#good #literature #lived #more #people

The Bible is literature, not dogma. ↗

— George Santayana

#dogma #literature

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#curse #deep #literature #snare #toil

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #books #literature #passion #teaching

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest