Quotes About Literature

I told him then that I loved him. "Because I've read Jane Eyre?" he asked incredulously. "Not because I realized the voice really was yours and ran down the hill to find you?" "Both," I told him. "But mostly because of Jane Eyre.

She raised her glass of Chablis. "To all readers everywhere, may their tribe increase.

I'd never seen so many books. Never. The sight made my eyes water. I mean, tear right up.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don't move until you've reached page fifty. Until you've buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Every night instead of watching television, Sandburg would read to his family." "I sure hope Mom doesn't start that," Michael muttered.

I believe in books.

good for my thighs; all this humping of books, good for my biceps.

The book is man's best invention so far.

I went to the shoemaker to collect his wastepaper. One of them asked me if my book was communistic. I replied that it was realistic. He cautioned me that it was not wise to write of reality.

the only manuscripts in her entire career that had required no editing, "no repeat absolutely no editorial suggestions from me or anyone else," were Wilder's and E. B. White's.

Three weird sisters in an antifeminist trifecta, they each celebrated in their books the strapping male as a hero, and exhibited a striking dissociation from what was happening around the world.

In the peculiar alchemy of literature, the daughter was adept at creating in fiction what she had not known in her own childhood.

It was as if Louisa May Alcott had decided to drop Jack the Ripper into the domestic circle of Little Women just to see what might happen.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

You blush. You are Charlotte's Web and I could love you.

I love Stephen King as much as any red rum drinking American, but I resent the fact that I, the bookseller, am his bitch.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

It is my destiny to know people who abuse punctuation.

I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar. "Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already. "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood.

You like words and I know words

I don't like this culture of reading a book and spitting out an immediate reaction.

And she's right, Joe. You read too much." No such thing.