Quotes About Literature

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

From the beginning, Scholem made clear that Kabbalah is a writer's mysticism.

A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.

You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they'll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.

I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.

I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one

En las manos adecuadas, un libro puede ser tan peligroso como una espada.

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

When somebody says 'it's just a book' smile because they just don't understand.

Reading books again? Books will ruin your sword eye, boy.

A twisted spine condemned him to walk with a limp, but as he said famously, "I do not limp when I read, nor when I write.

Lord Rodrik was seldom seen without a book in hand, be it in the privy, on the deck of his Sea Song, or whilst holding audience. Asha had oft seen him reading on his high seat beneath the silver scythes. He would listen to each case as it was laid before him, pronounce his judgment…and read a bit whilst his captain-of-guards went to bring in the next supplicant.

Sleep is good. Books are better.

Chi legge vive mille vita prima di morire. Chi non legge mai, ne vive solo una.

George R.R. Martin

She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and places