Quotes About Literature

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (1888–1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. During the First World War, she contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write

Léautaud decía «escribid como si escribieseis una carta, no releáis, no me gusta la gran literatura, sólo me gusta la conversación escrita».

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

The books he read were "humanistic garbage," devoid of wisdom. The ancient classics were, as he later said, "classics of depravity. Classics of degenerate cultures. What they offer at their best is evil.

I stole the character straight out of Georgette's A Civil Contract." Jenny considered herself on a first name basis with the late, legendary Regency novelist Georgette Heyer.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting on at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of the long day makes that day happier.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." —

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting for one at the end of a long day makes the day happier.

Allein schon das Wissen, dass einen am Ende eines langen Tages ein gutes Buch erwartet, macht diesen Tag zu einem glücklicheren.«

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. [Allein schon das Wissen, dass einen am Ende eines langen Tages ein gutes Buch erwartet, macht diesen Tag zu einem glücklicheren.]

Put your nose in a book. That's the best thing for you.

Too much reading is a bad habit. No one likes a girl who squints.

Sis took Eva to the public library and showed her how to get a card. Every week, Eva read her way through the works of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, Henry James and Elizabeth Gaskell. She dreamed of heroines from modest backgrounds attracting unprecedented attentions, soaring tales of love across social divides and sudden unexpected reversals of fortunes. In these pages, anything was possible, even for a girl like her.

The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne.

I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and started talking about personal things like their feelings.

The 1643 Martyrologie des chevaliers (Martyrology of knights)

There's nothing like the feel of an old book in your hands.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.