Quotes About Literature

quotation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons.

he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

Into the field of Yellow flowers The red setting sun!

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.