Quotes About Literature

his writings derive from a basically romantic temperament)

Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

the books of the 1920s and '30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type.

We weren't idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with the highest kind of ambition — not to get rich or to impress women, but to make our mark as Proust and Joyce had made their mark.

My dear, We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them. Don't let them explore you until they've explored the secret universes of books. Don't let them connect with you until they've walked between the lines on the pages. Books are cool, if you have to withhold yourself from someone for a bit in order for them to realize this then do so. Truly yours, John Samuel Waters

If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

I believe that if a seven-year old kid has heard of Naked Lunch and is daring enough to want to read it, he's old enough to read it.

Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Tenemos que hacer que los libros vuelvan a molar. Si vas a casa de alguien y no tiene libros, no te lo folles.

If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else

The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.

To read without joy is stupid.

This signior is sound, safe, ready, and dumb As ever was candle, carrot, or thumb; Then away with these nasty devices, and show How you rate the just merits of Signior Dildo.

A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.

Drink deeply from good books.

She'd never known a book lover to grow up to cause trouble.

Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books.

I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.