Quotes About Literature

The fire flashed through Fiction, consuming as it traveled. It reached for the cookbooks. The cookbooks roasted.

fiction fiends.

It seems simple to define what a library is—namely, it is a storeroom of books.

I wanted fo have my books around me, forming a totem pole of the narratives I'd visited.

I wanted to have my books around me, forming a totem pole of the narratives I'd visited.

them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.

Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know.

wanted librarians to simply adore the act of reading for its own sake, and perhaps, as a collateral benefit, they could inspire their patrons to read with a similarly insatiable appetite.

understood how fundamental books were to Jewish culture, theology, and identity

Quoting a letter by Charles F. Lummis]: books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

people of the book.

a novel that was romantic but not corny;

In fact, Perry was passionate, but his passion was exclusively for libraries, and he judged people by whether or not they shared his passion.

In Beijing, about a third of library books are borrowed out of vending machines around the city.

books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

The most damaging mistakes a writer can make are probably misspelling or misusing words

I love words," said Livvie. "I have always loved and respected words . . . since a long time ago.

I had a stack of books of fabulous contemporary writers who'd left their roots and who seemed invigorated thereby. Isabel Allende from Chile to California, Clarice Lispector from Russian to Brazil, Haruki Murakami from Japan to Italy, Kazuo Ishiguro from Japan to England. I knew I wasn't going back to New England, that I'd found my real homeland. North California was where my characters wanted to be.

I liked to read about five books at a time and leave them open to my place.

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

Unlike myself, she has the accident of style rather than the intention.

I'm seeing Eugene Onegin." After the letter scene, Tatiana pours a ewer of water over her head. I think you'd like it.