Literature History Quotes

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious.