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“I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Feelings Romance Literature Attention Serious Standards Critics Beach Topics Unworthy About Family Double Standard

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.”

Source: Losing Julia

“The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.”

Men Writing Country Whole Feelings Order Literature Existence Generations Tradition Historical Bones Simultaneous Individual Talent

Book:The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

Source: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

“My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.”

Thinking Heart Long Feelings Night Literature Sleep Grief My Heart Universal Wake Up Shock Waking All Night Assassination Indignation Righteous Indignation

Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.”

World Trying Important Ideas Feelings Poetry Literature Serious Poetry Is Serious Business

Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”

Giving Heart Feelings Earth Literature Too Much Possession Unhappy Sensitive Sensitive Person

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.”

Knows Mind Feelings Literature Easy Tradition Usual Old Lady

Book:Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition

Source: Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition

“I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years.”

Years States Feelings Literature Strong Known Doors Landscape Traveled Columbia Strong Feeling

Author:David Guterson

“The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.”

Stills Feelings Culture Literature Style Crime Mass Murder Ignorant Possessed Ungrateful Popular Culture Poisoning

Book:Letters of George Sand

Source: Letters of George Sand

“Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.”

People Knows Way Art Feelings Literature Given Sex Loneliness Connected Isolation Relief

Author:Adrienne Rich

“It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature.”

World Looks Different Feelings Literature Attention Moral Impossible Ordinary Bible Breathe Atmosphere

Author:Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine