Quotes About Literature

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic.

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

A good book is not the same as a successful one.

People don't always want quality. A good book is not always successful and a successful one is not always good.

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books.

Books are what teach you about life. Books teach you empathy.

Are you still with this man? On no, She sniffed. I realized pretty quickly I couldn't marry a man without a bookshelf. No bookshelf? In his house. Not even a little one in his loo for the Reader's Digest. Many people in this country don't read books. He didn't have one book. Not even a true crime. Or a Jeffrey Archer. I mean, what does that tell you about someone's character?

I realized pretty quickly I couldn't marry a man without a bookshelf.

You were reading my Flannery O'Connor the other day." He took a sip of his drink. "When I was ill." "The short stories? I can't believe you noticed that." "I couldn't help but notice. You left the book out on the side. I can't pick it up." "Ah." "So don't read rubbish. Take the O'Connor stories home. Read them instead." I

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber—are set several centuries ago.

There is blood in my mouth, warm and tasting of iron.

day fiction, but two of the best books I've read recently—Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber—are set several centuries ago.

I used to think you were going to eat those books, you were so hungry for them. Never knew a girl read so many so fast.

and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. • LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, Little Women

Una novela fabulosa, emotiva y evocadora, y perfecta para amantes de Mad Men.»

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.

He would wordlessly light up his pungent antiasthma cigarettes in the middle of class and debate openly with his mathematics and literature teachers about inaccuracies he's caught them in.

He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to literature.

Lane and I got turned down in a lot of places because people thought the manuscript of The Three Little Pigs was too sophisticated. That became a curse word—the 'S' word… People don't give kids enough credit for knowing the fairy tales and being able to get what parody is.

I'll explain that in a moment)

Zane Grey, Max Brand, and Louis L'Amour