Quotes About Literature

When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.

Why bother with other people's worlds made of words? was his philosophy.

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times.

Algunas cosas no duran para siempre, pero otras sí. Como una buena canción, o un buen libro, o un buen recuerdo que se puede recuperar y contemplar en los malos momentos..

a voice yelled after me but it was wayward and might have been a cry out of someone's nightmare.

I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time to time, and speak, when invited to writers' circles and at summer schools, and I'm continually amazed at the number of would-be writers who scarcely read. For ideas to germinate and proliferate there has to be fertile ground to sow them in, and for the ground to be fertile it must be mulched with observation, imagination, and other writing.

No reading can be called a vice.

ireally think that the Book Life,After is the best book i've read this year because i really got into it and actually read at home and liked it

I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy, Mr. Roper, it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation. -said by Katherine Darnell in Chasing Shakespeares, by Sarah Smith

A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.

If there is a recurring theme in Garfield's diaries it's this: I'd rather be reading.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.

So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it.

I am drawn to Tom Sawyer Island because a tribute to Mark Twain would not be out of place in a theme park of my own design. Should Vowell World ever get enough investors, I'm going to stick my Tom Sawyer Island in Love and Death in the American Novel Land right between the Jay Gatsby Swimming Pool and Tom Joad's Dust Bowl Lanes, a Depression-themed bowling alley renting artfully worn-out shoes.

That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said On the Road. He smiled, said, That was my favorite book at sixteen. At the time , I thought he was patronizing me, that it was going to be my favorite book forever and ever, amen. But he was right. As an adult, I'm more of a Gatsby girl-more tragic, more sad, just as interested in what America costs as what it has to offer.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. The more knowledge, the better seems like the a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.

the cheapest, most pleasurable way for a country of strangers to get to know each other and the rest of the world is through reading.

Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be happy to read them.

He yelled, Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.

Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.

John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read.

It means that writers are supposed to make you laugh and cry. That's what mankind is looking for.

The value of literature lies in these intermittent 'true impressions.' A novel moves back and forth between the world of objects, of actions, of appearances, and that other world, from which these 'true impressions' come and which moves us to believe that the good we hang on to so tenaciously—in the face of evil, so obstinately—is no illusion.