Quotes About Literature

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

In quiet moments, I love to read.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

If you love language, it will love you back.

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Dear me, how I love a library.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

My love of books was all that saved me.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.

I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one.

I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.