Quotes About Literature

You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

If reading counted as a sport, I'd be a gold medalist.

Don't you wish you could live inside a book sometimes?" "All the time.

read books—devouring them with the speed of two people famished for words, ideas, and beautiful sentences that make you feel everything.

A true piece of writing sets you free.

A book is a dream you hold in your hands

I always returned from my travels with new books.

I saw no way out but to dive right in, to a good book.

I am obsessed with reading and writing.

There is no friend like a book there is no beauty like a kind heart.

I wonder how many books you have read?

a room without boooks like a body without soul

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books.

I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don't do that with any other artists.

Books … they're kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.

Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing.

We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law.

It is always better to be a bookworm rather than being a dung-beetle!

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

...an irresistible of why we read and why we love.We are not quite novels.We are not quite short stories.In the end, we are collected works.