Quotes About Literature

I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

Words, ' he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

A fine writer must appreciate and accept the power of language manifestly.

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

David Felton, his former editor at Rolling Stone, called it "probably the worst-edited and most self-indulgent work since the Bible. There doesn't seem to be any order.

he settled down in his favorite armchair and read. Soon he was lost to all else but the rhythm of the words talking to him across the centuries.

We read to know we're not alone.

We read to know we're not alone.

success as an apologist: Étienne Gilson called Orthodoxy 'the best piece of apologetic the century [has] produced'; it brought Dorothy L. Sayers back to Christianity, just as The Everlasting Man brought C. S. Lewis to his famous moment of conversion on Headington Hill. Much remains to be done before Chesterton's huge oeuvre can be adequately assessed as a major part of the cultural history of the last century.

Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.

it made me wonder whether the brothers karamazov would have ever come down to us as a classic if its title had been the karamzov brothers.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,And leave them honeyless.