Quotes About Literature

Novels had accompanied her throughout her childhood, that period of protracted isolation, and they would probably do so during whatever lay ahead in adulthood.

In the past," a writer friend of Ethan's had recently said, over lots of beer, "everyone wanted to be novelists. And now they all want to be screenwriters. It's like screenplays are the same exact thing as novels, but easier to read and worth a lot more money.

Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.

Some people lusted after cars, which had never made sense to me. For me, bookshelves could inspire whole spontaneous sonnets, so maybe it was an each to her own scenario.

The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.

I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!

London and Fog! When these two come together, it is time to be a writer!

No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!

To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

Mary Shelley, who at only nineteen years of age conceived her immortal Gothic novel, Frankenstein. Needless to say, Gene Wilder and I will always be in her debt.

I libri sono gli amici più veri,... Ti accompagnano nei giorni felici e in quelli tristi, non ti lasciano mai solo. Tu li abbandoni ma loro sanno perdonarti

Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.

I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

Webb read fantasy; Jude read realism

I'd read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga,' I say. 'Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?

That books should provide for learning, but that they should also provide for enjoyment

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, nor social harmony.

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.