A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A novel is about people.
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
The proper study of mankind is books.
I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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