#literature

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

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#ancient #ancient rome #bridge #could #eleven

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen. ↗

— Randall Terry

#ever #guys #had #interesting #involved

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#american literature #anyone #bad #been #i

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#ad #been #could #debt #enough

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

Insane" es un problema mental congénito, y se considera conveniente tratarlo con una terapia especializada. En cambio, "Lunatic" se refiere a una pérdida temporal del juivio debido al efecto de la luna. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#literature-quotes