Quotes About Literature

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

Here were Winnie the Pooh, The Wind in the Willows, A Wrinkle in Time, The Outsiders, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Gone with the Wind, Wuthering Heights. And over here Anne of Green Gables, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pride and Prejudice, Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Si hay algo para lo que resulte útil una formación literaria, es para dotarlo a uno de un sentido de la catástrofe. No hay nada como una imaginación vivida para desvitalizarle a uno el valor.

Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." — Mark Twain Beh-Rang was a critic of "an educational system that does not offer anything other than limited reading and writing." Beh-Rang

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.

A Babylonish dialectWhich learned pedants much affect.

For rhetoric, he could not opeHis mouth, but out there flew a trope.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

I read part of it all the way through.

Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.

What is written without effort in general is read without pleasure.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made.

No, Sir, it is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Lexicographer—A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

Grubstreet—The name of a street near Moorsfield, London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems.

The father of English criticism.

My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.

There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones.