Quotes About Literature

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Deep vers'd in books and shallow in himself.

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

Aphorism or maxim, let us remember that this wisdom of life is the true salt of literature; that those books, at least in prose, are most nourishing which are most richly stored with it; and that it is one of the great objects, apart from the mere acquisition of knowledge, which men ought to seek in the reading of books.

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Reading is more important to me than eating.

Muslim literature and Muslims today also predict that Jesus will return to the earth at the time of what they call the "Last Day," a man whom their prophecies refer to as Isa al-Masih – Jesus the Messiah. But, the similarities end there! Muslims say that upon His return

I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.

Reading only a bit of a great book (e.g., Plato's Republic) is like getting engaged but never marrying. The initial experience is pleasurable but can become frustrating if prolonged.

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

A book worth reading is worth owning.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Hamlet could not possibly have been written by Hamlet.

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there's not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.