Quotes About Literature

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

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

It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.