Quotes About Literature

Her words dance on the page.

Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.

I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

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

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.

Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

Taking a nap looks more refined when holding a book

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Natalie S. Bober. A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost. Henry Holt: New York, 1998

Robert T. Richardson, Jr. Henry Thoreau, A Life of the Mind. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1986

Stuart M. Sperry. Keats the Poet. Princeton University Press; Princeton, NJ, 1993

Gerald B. Kauvar. The Other Poetry of Keats. Associated University Press: Cranbury, New Jersey, 1969

Donald Goellnicht. The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, 1984

Andrew Motion. Keats. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2001

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

All I wanted was a job like a book so good I'd be finishing it for the rest of my life.