Quotes About Literature

Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.