Quotes About Literature

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."

Let my temptation be a book.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

what can be the best way to express emotions, if not literature

The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your self. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion

You are what you read because your mind is the sit of your knowledge acquried

I write because I love to play with language.

I love really long books because it feels like you are diving into a pool for a very long time.:)

Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers

Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole.

Czech: ?ekni mi, co ?teš, a já ti ?eknu, kdo jsi.English: Tell me what you read, and I'll tell you who you are.First president of Czechoslovakia.