Quotes About Literature

When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.

19 th century literature is dead in this country

Socrates should have written comics.

Ein Reich ohne Bücher, ist ein verlorenes Reich.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

Ich glaube, der alte Ferdinand las so viel, damit er nicht mit seiner Frau reden mußte. Immerhin hatten Männer damals noch soviel Autorität, daß niemand ihr Studierzimmer zu betreten wagte. Auf diese Weise wurde mein lieber Schwiegervater ein Gelehrter.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

You, inquisitor, are a man who collects words. You collect mine.

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