#literature

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature. ↗

— Jacqueline Susann

#concerned #i #literature #novelist #should

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

— P.G. Wodehouse

#literature #beauty

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forget #forgetting #literature #literature-quotes #old-stories

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. ↗

— Armand Assante

#i #literature #mediocrity #suffocating

Literature is the question minus the answer. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#literature #minus #question

I read Russian literature a lot. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#literature #lot #read #russian

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool. ↗

— Steven Brust

#book #consists #cool #degree #like

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

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#african #african american #american #angelou #believes

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#books #literature #experience