Hey! Does anyone know a good quote/quotes ABOUT literature (not from it)? I am writing an essay for my College English class about the influence of literature, and it'd be nice to throw in a few quotes about books or just general literature. Thanks so much! :)
2006-09-07 11:29:40 · 5 answers · asked by Beautiful Mistake 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Roland Barthes
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
Peter Bichsel
All literature is gossip.
Truman Capote
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
John Cheever
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
Elizabeth Drew
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis
2006-09-07 11:51:56 · answer #1 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
The Morrow Book of Quotations in American History (does have quotes about literature).
2006-09-07 16:27:24 · answer #2 · answered by goldie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I cannot live without books." Thomas Jefferson, 1815.
2006-09-07 11:48:27 · answer #3 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here try this, hope it helps. http://findquotations.com/home/search_quote?search=literature
2006-09-07 11:35:57 · answer #4 · answered by Loved By Someone Above 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"come watson come!" said Sherlock.
lol
2006-09-07 11:38:29 · answer #5 · answered by #!@#^$*#($ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋