Quotes About Literature

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics.

Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.

I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".

We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?

If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need.

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.

The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.

Poetry is a disease vector. Like malaria.

Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.

... the novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.

Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.

Hark, " he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?"Kami yelled up at him, "It is the east, and Juliet is a jerk!

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and, ' 'the, ' and 'I, ' and 'it, ' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.