Quotes About Literature

Poetry -- literature in general -- is the major cultural source of vital options for those who find that their lives fall short of their highest hopes. Literature is, I believe, our best goad toward new beginnings, our best chance for what we might call secular rebirth... in literature there abide major hopes for human renovation.

The resurrection of this once popular work [Ping Jinya's forgotten bestseller of the 1930s, Tides in the Human Sea ] is a reminder that the histories of 'Chinese literature' currently in circulation are far from being histories of what most people actually read.

Jones's faithful old friend and chronicler O. B. Keeler, now fifty-five and still covering the sport for the Atlanta Journal, was on hand to witness his victory and interviewed Byron in the locker room afterward. The unfailingly literate Keeler mentioned that Byron's back nine charge had put him in mind of Lord Byron's poem about Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. His headline the next day read: "LORD BYRON WINS MASTERS.

Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #13: READ BOOKS TO GET SMARTER. READ PEOPLE TO BECOME WISER.

Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

Metaphors are lies.

I don't like quotes, I prefer quotations

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that sits screaming in every living room in the land.

bypasses the accumulation of traditional cultural capital (that is, a relatively rarefied knowledge of great authors and their works) in favor of a more immediate identification with the charisma of authorship.

Not having the company of books made me feel even more isolated.

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

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The book you don't read is a journey forsaken.

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein

Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein

If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.

Reading is an apprenticeship to writing

The first step in writing is reading.

In my view, the written word ignites the brain in ways that cannot be achieved by any other medium.

Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.

Writing brings the unanticipated act of self-discovery. Reading does, too, for one who's receptive.

Reading: the best way I know to inhabit other lives, travel to distant places, have great adventures, gain knowledge and experience the world.