That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.Ken Thompson
I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.Mario Vargas Llosa
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.A. Bartlett Giamatti
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.Ernest Hemingway
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.Ray Bradbury