Quotes About Literature

David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely.

1st April, 1872.—Read Young's 'Search after Livingstone;' thankful for many kind words about me. He writes like a gentleman.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around

Athlete or not, I'm going to make sure you know how to read.

To me novella is a stupid word. It's too much like Nutella. And goodness knows, I do love a chocolate hazelnut spread that advertises itself as a respectable breakfast food (part of this healthy breakfast). And do we really want to read a type of book that is similar to a sweet spread for toast? I think not!

There are three rules for writing the novel," said W. Somerset Maugham. "Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.