Quotes About Literature

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.

My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket.

I have falling in love with reading.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

THAT'S WHAT SF IS ALL ABOUT. IF YOU WISH TO YIELD TO REALITY, GO READ PHILIP ROTH; READ THE NEW YORK LITERARY ESTABLISHMENT MAINSTREAM BESTSELLING WRITERS. . . . THIS IS WHY I LOVE SF. I LOVE TO READ IT; I LOVE TO WRITE IT. THE SF WRITER SEES NOT JUST POSSIBILITIES BUT WILD POSSIBILITIES. IT'S NOT JUST, "WHAT IF—." IT'S "MY GOD; WHAT IF—." IN FRENZY AND HYSTERIA. THE MARTIANS ARE ALWAYS COMING.

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Why does no one vet the quotations posted on Goodreads?

Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.