Quotes About Literature

The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.

I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books.

I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS - DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T EXPLAIN, THE BITTER GRAPES - ll available through Amazon and Createspace -

The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.

No one has a favorite book - they just fall in love with the spell the author put into the pages.

There are no such things as book hoarders, only aspiring librarians

I want and I wish a love like of books

Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart

This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.

Don't you worry Roald Dahl, The 6-year old me loved you but the 16-year old me worships you.

Reading a great novel gives the same feeling you have when you fall in love.

I am not a Books warm, but I like Books too much.

The more you read, the more you will love to read.

A beautiful face like yours should be smiling. Why don't you smile?""I do smile. When something beautiful happens in a book, I can't help but smile.

I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.

Aya Ling, The Ugly Stepsister

The love I knew was from books..