Quotations and Literature Forum

I like Alan Bennett too, I watched The History Boys when it was released some while ago on the insistence of my girlfriend who has seen the original cast and others in theatre several times. I also remember liking Talking Heads which we started in part for GCSE.

My favourite playwrights though are Shakespeare, Ibsen and Chekov. I also very much enjoyed The Duchess of Malfi by Webster (a contemporary of Shakespeare) when I came to study it for A level.

My favourite author is still Ayn Rand.

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"The proper study of mankind is man."
Alexander Pope

Favorite French author: Victor Hugo
Favorite Russian: Chekhov or Turgenev
Favorite American: Edgar Allan Poe
Favorite English: J.R.R. Tolkien

However, since I am limited to the books I have read, this list is inevitably subject to change.

My faveorite poets would be
Edgar Allen Poe
Sappho
Syliva Plath
William Wordsworth
William Blake

and faveorite playwrites are
Shakespeare (Bet that one was hard to guess) and
Jean-Paul Sartre

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Every man carries a circle of hell around his head like a halo. Every man, every man has to go through hell to reach his paradise.
Robert De Niro, Cape Fear

i've always adored poe, and agatha christie has been a favorite forever, i also love to read anything by jonathan kellerman, dean koontz, and most of mary roberts rinehart.

Paul S. Kemp writes some great fantasy, Robert B. Parker for a gritty mystery. For the classics, I guess Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.

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There is no god higher than Truth.

Mahatma Ghandi

My favorite book is by Robert Hugh Benson, called Initiation. It's a story of a man who found out the real meaning of suffering and the reason for it; it touched me deeply and changed my outlook on some things in life. I also love Charles Dickens' stories and those by Arthur Conan Doyle.

I would have to may favorite author right now is Brad Meltzer. His books are very compelling with fast moving plots, some days I say I will read for about 20 minutes and end up putting the book down 3 hours later. So far I've only read three of his books like The Book Of Fate, The Zero Game, and Dead Even. I highly recommend this author to everyone.

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“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”


~Albert Einstein

I have many favourite authors mostly Oscar Wilde, Katie Friel, Nina Bawden and many more!
Most of the books that I read are war books that are mostly based in Liverpool!!!! I love that City!!!
If any of you know authors that write about the war or Liverpool or both please email me!
Thanks!!!

Katherine Kerr, Garth Nix,

Agatha Christie and John Grisham

Douglas Adams. I was having a pretty rough time with Life, the Universe and Everything, and he made me laugh at it and call it fruity.

Dostoesky, Dickens,Sylvia plath, Pablo Neruda, Proust

I prefer to speak of writings rather than writers, for obvious reasons, but here are some (no specific order): Jorge Luis Borges, Homer, Aldous Huxley, William Shakespeare, Umberto Eco, Tolkien, Alan Moore, and I'll agree with eric about Gaiman.

There are many authors I like because of one writing only, not included here.

I would have to say that my faverate auther is Goethe. He is the German Shakespeare.

D.O.T. Jr.