Quotes About Literature

I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that.

This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to precipitate unnecessary wars as well as a painful gaseous condition called stock market bubbles. For safety's sake, then, hyperbole should be used with restraint and only by those with proper literary training.

She had chosen Dante because she found the rhyme scheme pleasingly jaunty, but she realized too late that the Inferno's tale of sinners being cruelly punished in the afterlife was much too bloody and disturbing to be suitable for young minds. Penelope could tell this by the way the children hung on her every word and demanded "More, more!" each time she reached the end of a canto and tried to stop.

I got the idea from Lumawoo's cannibal book,

Maryrose Wood

got the idea from Lumawoo's cannibal book,

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

I like looking for myself in the whitest of pages. I like finding evidence of myself there, after being told my footprints did not exist on that sand. I think the work of the great white writers is important, but I think it's most important when it's negotiating me and my people, because I am as arrogant and selfish a reader as any other.

And that's the beginning of the primary conversation in African American literature, right there: the African descendant explaining to the European descendant about how white people's actions are affecting the lives of black people.* In

Books are kinder teachers than experience.

You want us to take on a job about funny books?" "They're graphic novels," Hardison said in a grave tone. "And it's a serious art form. They're the most vibrant format for modern literature. And—and they make freaking great movies. I mean, have you seen The Avengers ?

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

When anger trawls the internet, Looking for a hook; It's time to disconnect, And go and read a book.

I read and read and read with an intensity I'd never really known before. I mean, I'd always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.

Where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them.

History is a branch of mathematics. So is literature. Economics is a branch of religion.

William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest writer of all time. He has a mediocre 3.7 average on Goodreads.

Reading Schopenhauer when you felt melancholy was like taking off your clothes when you felt cold, but a line of his came back to me.

But where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them.