literature

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." George Orwell

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from one generation to the next. Books save lives." Laurie Anderson

"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none." Jules Renard

"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children, life is the other way round." David Lodge

Literature offers feelings for which we don’t have to pay. It allows us to love, condemn, hope, dread, and hate without any of the risks those feelings ordinarily involve. Janet Burroway

Trouble at a school in Florida sparked by effing, blinding and blasphemy in 'The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night', by Mark Haddon. I have given this book to a private pupil of mine to read, extra to her English GCSE curriculum activities. I trust her father (a very correct gentleman...

PODCAST With Will Self and other London writers. Ben Aaronovitch could get a mention. Reviewers who say they don't read fantasy have also said they have read Rivers of London for his wonderful portraiture of streets they know: London Books are big business, and London's open for Business...