| Author |
Quotes |
| Isaac D Israeli | But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. |
| Isaac D Israeli | Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. |
| Isaac D Israeli | Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. |
| Isaiah | And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isaiah 2:4. |
| Israel Zangwill | You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... - Melting Pot, The. |
| Italo Calvino | A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. |
| Jacques Barzun | Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. |
| James Connolly | Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. |
| James Fenton | The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | The republic of letters. |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. |
| Jeremy Bentham | The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array. |
| Jessamyn West | Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. |
| John Ashbery | There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. |
| John Cotton Dana | Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. |
| John Morley | Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. |
| John Moschitta | Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature |
| Joseph Conrad | I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations. |
| Joseph Joubert | If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. |
| Joseph Roux | Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. |
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