#literature

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

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You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#best #culture #get #line #literature

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#literature #luxury #necessity

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#difference #journalism #literature #read #unreadable

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#biography #even #fiction #history #literature

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#astounding #books #bookstore #department #depending

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#discrimination #dull #good #great #great literature

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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