Quotes About Literature

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.