Quotes About Literature

Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read?

I love books, they're in my blood.

Any man who reads is a fine one.

I'll be a straitjacketed bookworm burrowed into the binding of an insane, homicidal book, staring helplessly out from the pages of my own life, as they're writ by someone else, and I'd commit atrocities that would damn a saint's soul.

I'd take some peace and quiet. A beautiful girl." He laughed. "A good book.

I should be more frugal, but my weaknesses are books

What were her abilities? She played the pianoforte passably well even though it didn't interest her. She loved to read and could spend the rest of her life in a library. She'd written a book, and her imagination was such that she could transport herself from the wilds of Scotland to anywhere.

Rachel, on the other hand, always had her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Words, I guess, are her more durable artifacts.

Mixed metaphors with two source domains that don't make sense together, […] are the structures that most deserve the name 'mixed metaphors'.

Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Family conditions early in life cast a long shadow. That principle holds broadly, but with exceptions, and in this context they are numerous. The literature on so-called resilient youth shows that many who grow up in disadvantaged circumstances succeed in overcoming often daunting challenges (for example, Furstenberg, Brooks-Gunn, and Morgan 1987; Masten,

Carol Zaleski has commented at some length on the sanitizing of the NDE for the modern feel-good market. In her book 'Otherworld Journeys', she noted that accounts of near-death experiences from Medieval times were filled with "harsh judgement scenes, purgatorial torments and infernal terrors," which have disappeared from "today's upbeat near-death literature." She quipped that the modern being of light "communicates, but never excommunicates.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

One must read all writers twice - the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Armiger leaned over her and kissed her cheek. "Which what do I prefer?" "Do you prefer making love or reading?" He voice held a teasing note, but he had learned there were frequently hidden needs behind her teasing questions. "To read is to make love to the world," he said. "But to make love to a woman is to feel like the world is reading you.

I've always loved books. I was an avid reader, with any number of my own stories rolling around in my head. Writing them down seemed a logical step.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is.