Quotes About Literature

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

I may be able to put a good book tape on in the car on the way home and I will have a smile on my face.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

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One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breathe, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives--transitoriness and oblivion.

There was no sorrow till the devil pumped it up," as we say in Russian.

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature.

If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subjects than others of your standing, reflect that you have had greater opportunites of seeing the world, and obtaining a knowledge of Mankind than any of your cotemporarys, that you have never wanted a Book, but it has been supplied you, that your whole time has been spent in the company of Men of Literature and Science. How unpardonable would it have been in you, to have been a Blockhead.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine .

Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.