Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Lawrence Clark PowellStichwörter: books literature reader readership
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Lawrence Clark PowellStichwörter: life books death read literature
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark PowellStichwörter: books writing vision literature creativity
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: words reading books literature
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: philosophy literature fantasy
Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.
Edward de BonoStichwörter: real-life literature
The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.
Kenneth McLeishStichwörter: literature
have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt WhitmanStichwörter: literature
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
Helen KellerStichwörter: reading books opinions literature criticism classics elitism snobbery
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles DickensStichwörter: literature
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