“One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.”
Caroline Kennedy
“Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.”
Dejan Stojanovic
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”
Oscar Wilde
“Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.”
Camilo Jose Cela
“When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.”
James Earl Jones
“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree”
Ezra Pound
