Quotes About Literature

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

L'adoption de l'anglais a, évidemment, entraîné une critique importante : celle de privilégier la langue du colonisateur au détriment de celle des colonisés. Cette accusation a couru tout au long des décennies, mais elle repose sur un vœu qui est souvent resté pieux, celui de promouvoir les littératures en langues vernaculaires.

I have never passed a bookstore without going inside; it's sacrilegious

George often bought books from publishers in an unbound state, then had the volumes bound according to his own preferences

Physicist's wife asked him to read 'The Cat in the Hat' by Dr. Seuss to their child. The Physicist said that he had never heard of 'The Cat in the Hat' by Dr. Seuss, but he's very familiar with 'The Cat in the Box' by Dr. Schrodinger, which he would be happy to read to their child.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain

Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he's even read some of them twice . What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?

skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.

She started reading. She didn't mean to spend long at it, but soon she was devouring every word, oblivious to the creaking old home and the rain outside.

He is the best, in my whole life i have only read his books!!!!!!

Children can be so cruel,' the Doctor said. 'Children's writers can be even worse.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.