#literature

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

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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

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

— Utada Hikaru

#i #japanese #late #literature #missing

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#like #literature #money #sinews #those

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#grow #literature #live #times #tranquil

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#cannot #elegant #knowledge #language #literature

I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#literature #purpose #life

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#intensely #literature #live #more #ourselves

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#high #literature #our #person #praise