Quotes About Literature

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

'Tis true 'tis pity And pity 'tis 'tis true.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

Remember, a book is always a gift.

I read Borges, Jorge Luis Borges. He think he too good for me, but I love him . . . he was a blind man who see better than anyone

They were oddities, marginal and not exactly respectable. For her part, Chaps was too well read to be considered entirely proper. Books had made her unreasonably independent.

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.