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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes (Scottish Essayist, Poet and Author of fiction and travel books, 1850-1894)

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“Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.”

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Woody Allen quotes (American Actor, Author, Screenwriter and Film Director, b.1935)

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“Books are humanity in print.”

Barbara W. Tuchman quotes (American popular historian and author, 1912-1989)

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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)

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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”

Barbara W. Tuchman quotes (American popular historian and author, 1912-1989)

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“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”

E. M. Forster quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1879-1970)

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“Every man's memory is his private literature.”

Aldous Huxley quotes (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)

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“Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child”

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“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes (Scottish Essayist, Poet and Author of fiction and travel books, 1850-1894)

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