Quotes About Literature

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Nimic nu e mai strâmb ?i mai fals decât o literatur? sau un film care înf??i?eaz? doar o lume uniform sinistr?. Pân? ?i în vie?ile cele mai întunecate exist? zile luminoase, plimb?ri pe malul apei ?i speran?e de fericire.

Viteza se strecur? pretutindeni, în c?l?torii, în obiceiuri, în mersul istoriei, care dup? cum repeta fiecare, se accelera, în ?tiin??, în mod?, ?i pân? ?i în literatur?.

The door made the usual, terrifying sound of a door.

Novels are not humanitarian reports. Indeed, let us be thankful that there remains sufficient cruelty, without which beauty would not be.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Everything about the guy screamed FICTION WRITER, though the species itself broke down more or less evenly into the subcategories: 1. Great American Novelist 2. -New York Times- Bestselling Author Or that highly rare hybrid... 3. -New York Times- Bestselling Great American Novelist

Then he would be relegated to the circle of shamed writers forever and without hope of appeal: James Frey, Stephen Glass, Clifford Irving, Greg Mortenson, Jerzy Kosinski Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Good writers borrow, great writers steal, Jake was thinking.

Either it's a good plot or it isn't. And if it's not a good plot, the best writing isn't going to help. And if it is, the worst writing isn't going to hurt it.

I just care about the story. Either it's a good plot or it isn't. And if it's not a good plot, the best writing isn't going to help. And if it is, the worst writing isn't going to hurt it.

Humanism, he continued, leaning toward his colleagues with the zeal of his conviction even as he stumbled over his words, that holds as its core value the belief that human beings can learn and grow and change, and that art—and literature—can fuel that evolution. But

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451,

Doctors of ancient times used to recommend reading to their patients as a physical exercise on an equal level as walking, running, or ball-playing.

I don't know why my books are so popular. I'm writing to please only myself, a book I would like to read.

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

He hoped she would not provide his family with any of her poems, which tended to use words like nipple.

You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed.

I've read seventeen novels and bushels of poetry-- really necessary novels like Vanity Fair and Richard Feverel and Alice in Wonderland. Also Emerson's Essays and Lockhart's Life of Scott and the first volume of Gibbon's Roman Empire and half of Benvenuto Cellini's Life--wasn't he entertaining? He used to saunter out and casually kill a man before breakfast.

I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going largely on his reputation.

I don't believe it pays to be a great author.