Studying Literature Quotes:

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Reality, Doe, Add, Studying Literature, Daily Motivation

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

- Barbara Tuchman

source: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

topic: Teacher, Book, Sea, Modern Civilization, Studying Literature

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Purpose, Literature, Mould, Studying Literature, Debris

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Book, Civilization, Silent, Modern Civilization, Studying Literature

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

- Roy Blount, Jr.

topic: Drinking, Learning, Hygiene, Studying Literature, Clinic

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

- Shane Warren Jones

topic: Believe, Soul, Literature, Studying Literature

I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.

- Nicholas Lemann

topic: Emotional, Skills, Choices, Either Or, Studying Literature

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

- Philip Pullman

topic: Reading, Views, Years, Studying Literature

I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield." Sean glanced at him. "And?" "I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Girl, Giving Up, Vampire, Studying Literature, Spare Time

My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.

- Garth Greenwell

topic: College, Years, Musician, Studying Literature, Conservatory