Quotes About Literature

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.

It was safe to assume he'd not only read the play but then re-read it, cross-referenced the annotations, and probably joined an online chat group called Buds of the Bard or something equally nerdy

Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let me tell you some stories!!

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.

This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.