Quotes About Literature

literature instead of cleanliness was next to godliness.

Yoga and books are the only way out.

Read something worth writing about or write something worth reading about

Words are the key, the books are the door.

If you are talking about beauty, books are cheaper than cosmetics.

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.

You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur, ' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

Kristin Cashore, Fire

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

Don't you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

Love of books is the best of all.