Quotes About Literature

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÂ's hands.

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.