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“The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with the substance of their records of our Lord's life. They did not have to respect their actual words, as they would if they were transcribing the works of Thucydides or Plato.”

People Ifs Literature Lord Records Concerned Mark Reputation Substance Plato Our Lord Matthew Transcribing

Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.”

Thinking Hard Done Stories Jobs Literature Novel Records Four Mess Short Story Permission Good Job Request

Author:Leslie Charteris

“literature is the record of our discontent.”

Literature Records Discontent

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.”

Use Poetry Literature Records Information Argument Function Obvious Verses Historic Analytics

Author:George Steiner

“If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.”

Ifs Poetry Literature Voice Records Survivor Shelter

Book:The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History

Source: The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History

“Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.”