Quotes About Literature

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

He is the best, in my whole life i have only read his books!!!!!!

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

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.

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.