The Literature Book Quotes

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul." Joyce Carol Oates”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“literature continues to satisfy a spiritual or psychological need, and open readers’ minds to the world and its extraordinary variety.”
― James Canton, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed.”
― James Canton, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“The white man is very clever … He has put a knife on things that held us together and we have fallen apart." Things Fall Apart”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness … all mortal greatness is but disease." Moby-Dick”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Oh I am burning! I wish I were out of doors—I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free." Wuthering Heights”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do." Jane Eyre”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“A flash of lightning illuminated the object ... it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life." Frankenstein”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“He puts their eyes in a bag and carries them to the crescent moon to feed his own children..." “The Sandman”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players." As”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em." Twelfth Night”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Tell me, Senor Don Alvaro,’ said Don Quixote, ‘am I at all like that Don Quixote you talk of?”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind." Don Quixote”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“I’d like to turn the deepest of yellows, / Falling, drop by drop, in a golden shower, / Into her lap..." Les Amours de Cassandre”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Time, which diminishes and erodes all things, increases and augments generous deeds …”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Endure the hardships of your present state, Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves." Oedipus”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Epics are narrative poems that recount the story of a hero who represents a particular culture.”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained