Quotes About Literature

Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.

You Bookmen flock to the battlefield like vultures.

I've read two books a week for 30 years....I'm satisfied I know everything.

The author and publisher

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Honestly," he says, "I judge writers on how they write queries. If you're a good writer, you're a good writer." And if not, then not.

And so in addition to lots of reading, the life of an editor involves constantly trying to get others to read as well.

You say that like she edited Ulysses," I said. "I don't care!" said my friend. "It was a No. 1 best-seller!" VII.

One day, when I was eighteen, I was reading a book and I began to weep. I was astounded. I'd had no idea that literature could affect me in such a way. If I'd have wept over a poem in class the teacher would have been appalled. I realised that my school had been teaching me not to respond.

Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

ELA teachers to cut back on the reading of literature and poetry. This trend of moving students away from literary reading is antithetical to good ELA instruction. Kids need more literary reading, not less.

Words are what I have and it's the words as words that interest me.

I can't blame books for the chaos of my life, but they've always been there on the journey.

Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all—not the car, not the TV, not the smartphone.

I'm not mad. I've just read different books.

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

Even in some older literature, such as in the writings of Byzantine historian Philostorgius in the fifth century, Ararat was suggested as the ark's landing site. After the 13th century a.d., more sources affirm this mountain as the landing site.

Both Ararat and Cudi are in the basic region of where the Urartu lived, but whereas Ararat is referred to in some early literature (5th century at the earliest) as the ark's landing site, Mt. Cudi is referred to as the landing site in many more and far earlier sources.

I feel about Flannery O'Connor the same way that terrible people feel about Ayn Rand.

Her only life ambition was to read every good book that had ever been published.

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.