Quotes About Literature

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

I never met a word I didn't love

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

My wife and I love to read. Were going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

I love a garden and a book.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends with those who don't love any books? I'm not so sure of that.

How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.