4,370 Quotes About Literature

Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread until you've made some sense of them. Short stories are a different ballgame. You read them and understand the words completely. You know what happens in each sentence. You follow the dialogue and action. at the end, you know exactly what's happened. And also you have no idea.

Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!

The world of books, the greatest possessions.

She remembered the way the damp, coarse sand had clumped to her legs and hands, and burrowed beneath her nails and into the folds of her clothes, and she had wondered why the British children in her storybooks were always excited about going to the beach—just as now she wondered why the light from the lighthouse seemed to be coming from the landward side of the expressway. “I thought a lighthouse is out at sea.

Dear family,I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like Alice in Wonderland, through different eyes.

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.