Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! J.R.R. Tolkien Philosophy #Fantasy #Literature #Philosophy
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature Books #Books #Classics #Literature
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it? Maggie Grace Arts #Beauty #Literature #Love
I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing. Stephen Fry Love #Drive #Literature #Teach
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis Arts #Caring #Literature #Truth
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. Gao Xingjian Life #Literature #Mask #Truth
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel Poetry #Books #Literature #Philosphy
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding. Carl Hiaasen Humor #Books #Literature #Mystery
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent Victor Hugo Poetry #Literature #Music #Poetry
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature. Roy Blount, Jr. Humor #Best #Literature #Missing
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. Boris Pasternak Arts #Literature #Ordinary #Words
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye Writing #Authors #Books #Literature