Quotes About Literature

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

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My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.'

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

Home is where your books are.

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.