“There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of
books is the best of all.”
– Jacqueline Kennedy
(American writer and wife of Late John F. Kennedy)
Shakespeare added over 1,000 words to the English language. Today, native English speakers still use these words in everyday speech. Some of these words and phrases are —
- Addiction — Being psychologically or physically dependent on something, usually a drug.
- Bedazzled — Blinded by something incredibly wonderful.
- Cold-blooded — Either an animal with cold blood (like a reptile) or a way to describe someone who is cruel and indifferent to emotion.
- Swagger — To walk in a way that shows you are boasting or disrespectful.
- Break the ice
- Dead as a doornail
- Fair play
- All of a sudden
- In a pickle
- Night owl
- Wear your heart on your sleeve
- Star-crossed lovers
- Off with his head
- Green-eyed monster
"Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas."
-Reza Aslan
(Iranian-American scholar and writer)
George Eliot was actually a woman. Mary Ann Evans wrote under this pen name because, in those days, women authors were not given equal credit as men. Under the pen name "George Eliot", Mary Evans wrote several novels considered best of all time.
Even as a writer, under the pen name "George Orwell", Eric Arthur Blair worked in the Indian Imperial Police (Burma) and for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
"Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality."
-Romain Gary
(French novelist and diplomat)
British writer CS Lewis, known for the book Chronicles of Narnia, coined the word ‘verbicide’ to denote the killing of a word or the distortion of its original meaning.
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