Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
Books Quotes
Samuel Johnson is on this page more than once for good reason. In The Rambler (1750) he wrote that no place gives a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Boswell (1791) has him saying that a man ought to read just as inclination leads him, because what he reads as a task will do him little good. Alberto Manguel, Emerson and Northrop Frye are among the most-quoted writers here, which is what you would expect from people who spent their working lives reading.
Two entries are flagged as misattributed. The quip about a manuscript that is both good and original, with the good parts not original and the original parts not good, is credited to Johnson. “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!” is credited to General Patton.
This book is not a biography; it is the confession of every man who struggles.
In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.
The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.
It amazes me how a person to whom literature means anything can take it up as an object of study.
His great holy books, which he does not know. They are so holy that he does not dare to open them.