Quotes About Literature

People who do not understand irony cannot understand fiction.

A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.

and everywhere books, books, books

Read books? That's like eating mielie pap—it start out bad, then it get no better." Joseph took a deep breath and let it out slowly, overburdened by the mere thought of literature.

I have always had that skill of being able to escape my immediate surroundings by diving into a book;

You can go anywhere in a book. Be anyone. And life has to make sense in a book. Real life doesn't have to make sense. In real life good people can turn out to be bad people, and bad people can get away with murder...and worse. I'll take a good book over that any day.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Someday I must read this scholar everyone

Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived.

Buy books. Unlike high calorie food, they don't give heart attacks.

You, Book! You are the only one who won't deceive, won't attack, won't insult, won't abandon! You're quiet - but you laugh, shout, and sing: you're obedient - but you amaze, tease, and entice; you're small, but you contain countless peoples. Nothing but a handful of letters, that's all, but if you feel like it, you can turn heads, confuse, spin, cloud, make tears spring to the eyes, take away the breath, the entire soul will stir in the wind like a canvas, will rise in waves and flap its wings!

Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time Because once upon a time We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told We need words to hold us and the world to behold us For us to truly know our souls

Eating and sleeping are the two periods in your life where writers get a pass for not reading. Check that. Only sleeping.

complete works of Shakespeare bound in red leather and many other grand titles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dame Agatha Christie's memorable detectives.

Nothing was worse than reading too late and falling asleep two or three pages into a novel.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

Thomas liked to call me a bookworm." "More of a book dragon, I should think." She laughed. "Why would you say that?" "You are far too fierce to be a lowly worm.

Una persona debería leer un libro porque este provoca algo en su corazón. Porque satisface la sed de conocimiento de esa persona, no la de algún hombre que vivía en la torre de un castillo hace doscientos años" - Andrew

Edwina probably wouldn"t notice if her bed caught on fire while she was reading a book.

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That much was also true. Edwina probably wouldn"t notice if her bed caught on fire while she was reading a book.

Some people should be paid not to write another novel.

Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.

I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll over, the books were my saviors.