Quotes About Literature

Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

He hesitated then, anticipating the panic that came when there was nothing left to read

I read books, not minds, Guido.

I think reading a translation is an act of faith.

It is easier to read about life than to live it, Even so young I knew that. Even so young I needed a rest from the living.

Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.

Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

At the same time, he was aware that literature was more than sociological data: it changes, not just reflects, expectations and experiences.

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Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

Since Wilfrid had introduced her to H.G. Wells, Jane's life had been different. Her horizons had widened and extended incredibly. H.G. Wells was like wind blowing through her mind. She felt strong and exhilarated after reading him. It didn't matter whether she agreed with him or not. She wasn't sure that he ever pointed out any road that she could follow. It didn't matter. He made her want to get up and fight and go on.

Over the last 10 years, we've learned that there's still no better way to succeed in college than to be well read.

I think it is essential to promote your work, since there are over 100,000 books published each year, and readers can fall in love with books they've never heard about.

vacuuming up countless pages of the genre like a blue whale inhaling krill.

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