Terry Eagleton Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Ideas, Bird

  "This milquetoast consensus is unnerved by radical faith" by Tristram Hunt, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2007.

• Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Reading, Space

  "Against The Grain". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1986.

• I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Thinking, Illiterate

• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Bus Stops, Everyday

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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