Quotes About Literature

Babies move more than books and aren't as conveniently shaped.

Turns out I really like bookstores. You know, I meet a lot of people in my line of work. A lot of folks pass through Alice Island, especially in the summer. I've seen movie people on vacation and I've seen music people and newspeople, too. There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewoman.

But jackets are the redheaded stepchildren of book publishing.

Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature.

Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature. He'd do this for free, not that he wants his publisher to know that.

I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes without saying—vampires.

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it.

The one real fight they'd ever had was over David Foster Wallace.

People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? —A.J.F.

En stad är ingen stad utan en bokhandel (en variant ursprungligen från "Amerikanska gudar" av Neil Gaiman)

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life

Marx era un lettore prodigioso e Sadie gli sembrava quel genere di libro che si può leggere e rileggere molte volte, scoprendo sempre qualcosa di nuovo

Or, I'm sorry, is Ichigo a him?" "Sam and Sadie say them." "Cool. When the parents can't recognize them. That moment is straight out of The Odyssey.

And yet . . . He had spent hours with the man over the last half-dozen years. They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

What do you read?" Ismay asks. "Little bit of everything. I started with crime novels. Pretty predictable that, I guess. But then A.J. got me into other kinds of books, too. Literary fiction, I think you'd call it. Some of it doesn't have enough action for my taste. Kind of embarrassing, but I like young adult. Plenty of action there and feelings, too.

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life

Good morning, magazines! Good morning, bookmarks! Good morning, books!

We read to know were not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.

Old School by Tobias Wolff

She loves quotation marks and peanut butter and words.

I'd argue that most people have terrible taste. When left to their own devices— literally their own devices—they read crap and they don't know the difference.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Their Eyes Were Watching God, or I Capture the Castle. Those books are like old friends. "When

No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World Inside

Não tem ninguém no mundo como o pessoal dos livros. É um negócio de cavalheiros e damas.