Quotes About Literature

I took to the...Library as to a lover...

The house was still, weighty with the comfort of a thousand books.

Mrs Porter, you see before you the product of an outmoded educational system, which is based upon beating Latin and Greek into a boy's mind before he has a chance to meet the penny-dreadful.

novels pass in and out of my hands while volumes of poetry are mine for life.

While at SMLA, I wrote a science fiction short-short called "Make A Prison." It worked its way all the way down to the very bottom of the S-F food chain, finally selling to Bob Lowndes at Original Science Fiction Stories for a half cent a word, then wound up in Judith Merril's prestigious annual anthology. I was elated—but I never wrote another piece of science fiction.

If you are trying to write realistic fiction and you people it extensively with overdrawn characters, you're working against yourself. You can occasionally get away with filling books and stories with grotesques, but unless your name's Carson McCullers it gets tricky. A less obvious form of caricature consists of giving an otherwise ordinary character a trait or attribute or mannerism on which the reader may focus his attention.

The book was We Walk Alone by Ann Aldrich.

that's where Fredric Brown spent his later years." "Fredric Brown? Our Fredric Brown?" "We were on the bus together." "You and Fredric Brown." "Right." "On a bus in Tucson." "When he was trying to work out a plot," I said, "he would ride buses all night, and thoughts would come to him." "I'll bet they would. 'Why am I up so late? What am I doing on this broken-down rattletrap?

I'd read Skid Row U.S.A., by Sara Harris

The book probably owes a little to The Tooth and the Nail, by Bill S. Ballinger, a fine writer who's pretty much forgotten these

seem to be the only person to have used the name Ben Christopher on a book. Strange, innit? Strange Embrace

Beacon's leading light, one Orrie Hitt. I

There are only three things to be done with a woman' said Clea once. 'You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.