Quotes About Literature

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound".

You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Boredom is why God invented books.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.