Quotes About Literature

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

Reading builds character and increases knowledge.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

There...is your spiritual obligation to literature: root out the reductive; seek excellence; pursue the numinous. And, along with a disciplined intellect (for one is of no use without the other) give to children their imaginations, of which they are being robbed with totalitarian intensity by the trash around them.

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person.

Nobody has the right to tell you what books you can and can't read except your parents.

Every book banned by the school board in this novel is the title of a book that has been challenged or banned in an American library at least once in the last thirty years.

Every person should be free to read whatever they want, whenever they want, and not have to explain to anyone else why we like it, or why we think it's valuable. I hope you all get a chance to read my books someday.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

By reading, a man already having some wisdom can gain far more; but it is equally true that reading can make a man already inclined toward foolishness far, far more foolish.

Our goal as adults is not to love all books alike, or as few as possible, but rather to love as widely and as well as our limited selves will allow.

and a chocolate brown woolly

According to the medical literature, I was a textbook case for posttraumatic stress disorder. During the day I can control my symptoms, at least to a degree, but not at night. That's when all hell breaks loose in my dreams.

items that have become part of me, foliage that has grown to conceal the bare stem of my real personality, what I was like before I ever saw these books, or any book at all, come to that.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.