Quotes About Literature

I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root," and for me the "fierce winds" include the marginalization-the downright segregation-of literature written by people of color.

In The Divine Comedy, Dante reserved a special place in the seventh circle of hell for people who charged usurious interest rates.

Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors? Every ten years a great man. Who paid the bill?

Books became my life, or maybe I should say books became the way I escaped from my life.

Bøkene ble mitt liv, eller kanskje jeg heller skulle si at bøkene hjalp meg å flykte fra mitt liv.

I'm going to do what any self-respecting English major would do: pull something out of my ass.

To the English majors. We may not always be practical, but we have infinite potential.

Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

Chances are you have a deep connection to books because at some point you discovered that they were the one truly safe place to discover and explore feelings that are banished from the dinner table, the cocktail party, the golf foursome, the bridge game. Because the writers who mattered to you have dared to say I am a sick man. And because within the world of books there is no censure.

For the writer who truly loves language, a trip to the copy editor is like a week at a spa. You come out looking younger, trimmer, and standing straighter.

Betty G. Birney

There's nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..

If you can't get a boy, get a book.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.

Shakespeare, Dickens

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.