Quotes About Literature

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

I don't have time to read nonfiction.

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.