Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied. — Anonymous
Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied. — Anonymous
Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied. — Anonymous
Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied. — Anonymous
Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied. — Anonymous
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Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied.

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For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. — Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate — Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and — Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others. — Thomas Bernhard, Concrete
When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerou — Nicole Krauss, Great House
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generat — Laurie Anderson
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a bo — Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and — Philip Pullman
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they he — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden fr — Ralph Waldo Emerson