Quotes About Literature

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national treasures--neighborhood bookstores.

English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.

I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out there in fiction about blended families.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

Writing is pure sweet freedom.

If you read, you will transform your life.

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of.

Can you imagine life without a book?

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or musi

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

Great books live longer than people.They are gonna bury us all.

Then to the spicy nut-brown ale.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.