Quotes About Literature

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While" to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn't nearly so important; it comes in its own time.

Pourquoi ne pas profiter des contrepoisons de la civilisation, les bons livres.

En littérature, la première impression est la plus forte.

All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

READING HOMER'S POEMS is one of the purest, most inexhaustible pleasures life has to offer—a secret somewhat too well kept in our time.

Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took her bath each night with a different cookery book.

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Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.

I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it.

Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we're talking about the big picture - how they're relevant.

I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our world, and it's something that makes the 'X-Men' comics so relevant - they're about xenophobia and prejudice.

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

I like stories, and I really like words. So I like stories that rely on dialogue.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.