Quotes About Literature

In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.

Ah, Stefan, give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.

how can you underestimate the effects of your books, your words, all of it on all the blood drinkers in existence?

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful.

give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed. But

He had learned something from a book which others believed must be learned from doing or practice.

The Vampire Lestat here.

She was quite the reader of books, that I can tell you. She knew so much poetry. She was always quoting this or that verse in an off-handed manner. I try to remember the things she quotes, the poets she loved.

There are gaps in my education which no one could ever fill. But, they don't matter to me. I do not need to know science or algebra or geometry. Literature and music, painting and history-these are my passions. These are things that still, somehow in hours of quiet and lonesomeness, keep me alive.

I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. ? Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

Maybe because I'd read the chronicles so avidly, I felt Lestat was as close to me as I was to him.

Ah, Stefan, give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you perhaps give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.

I stayed there for three nights with him, talking about the mysterious islands of England with him

Again it was words that healed. Words and memory.

Reading is the first to go, my mother used to say, meaning that it was a luxury the brain dispensed with under duress. She claimed that after my father died she never again picked up anything more demanding than the morning paper. At the time I had thought that was sort of melodramatic of her, but now I found myself reading the same paragraph six times over, and I still couldn't have told you what it was about.

She passed her New York Reviews on to Troy without giving them a glance; she told him she thought there was something perverted about book reviews that were longer than the books they were reviewing.

I read so I live more than one life in more than one place.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

Mary Ann could no more endure a day without reading than she could grow feathers.

Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.