Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books history is silent literature dumb science crippled thought and speculation at a standstill.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it there should be development of art and culture literature and education science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like why they said all the strange things they did.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

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.

There's a wealth of literature out there which hopefully will be you know exploded in the future and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling and sort of legendary characters.