Quotes About Literature

I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

An unread book does nobody any good

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

Good writing comes from good talent.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

A good book is an education of the heart.

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Good writing is like a windowpane.