Quotes About Literature

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals.

After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word coun

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.