Quotes About Literature

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!

The love of reading can be contagious.

By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

I do not love fiction, I love history.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.

A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.

All bad writers are in love with the epic.