Literature Quotes
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.John Burroughs
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.Elizabeth Drew
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.G. K. Chesterton
There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.Stephen Stills
