Quotes About Literature

Books are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.' Gilbert Highet.

are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.' Gilbert Highet.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.

Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore. —Thea Dorn

anyone can open a book. Not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.

He'd hooked me, I am not a man who goes gaga upon touching a rare first edition of Lady Chumley's collected couplets, say, but I was interested. As I took the manuscript from him, he was saying, "Oddly enough, perhaps my greatest interest is the art and literature of India. I have, myself, visited the overpowering caves at Ellora, Ajanta, and Elephanta." I examined the manuscript with growing interest.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

When Mark Twain was told in 1905 by the librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library that copies of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had been removed from the shelves of the children's room, he replied, "I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for adults exclusively, and it always distresses me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

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is writing that does what only literature can do: transport you to another time and place and acquaint you with emotions and sensations that you otherwise would never feel.

It is writing that does what only literature can do: transport you to another time and place and acquaint you with emotions and sensations that you otherwise would never feel.

I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.

She's a tale spinner," he said. "She spins 'em right outta the air. Tells 'em whole so's you'd think yer readin' a book.

A high school English teacher who has been teaching for thirty years recently said to me, "My students today are nice and they're smart, but they can't engage suffering in any way. I try to teach them King Lear, or 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' and they just don't want to think about real pain.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

All literature is protest.

Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

I grandi libri, come i grandi amici, devono essere condivisi.

I'm sure it's probably a mistake to try and draw your own conclusions from the things you read in books. Who knows?