Quotes About Literature

When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

Just because it's in a book doesn't mean it isn't real.' - Great Aunt Celia

Just because it's in a book doesn't mean it isn't real.' Great Aunt Celia, The Spider Goddess.

Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.

You don't approve of Braddon?" I asked, readying myself to give him a stern lecture on the merits of her work. Not everything, after all, must be an exercise in the intellectual. One does require entertainment on occasion.

Holinshed again. The one that inspired Shakespeare's famous speech.

Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edith Wharton, and Amelia B. Edwards (yes, the Egyptologist who gave her first name to Amelia Peabody) all contributed to the craze. Henry James' magnificent The Turn of the Screw is one of the best:

Tasha Alexander

For my parents, who taught me to love books

All thinking people are in constant need of more books.

You see, Armand, there was a new hunger within me, and on some days I can assure you I felt fairly ravenous. The need to read took over me, a delicious and exhilarating hold. The more I read, the hungrier I became. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.

j'étais animée d'une faim nouvelle, et certains jours, j'étais véritablement vorace. Le besoin de lire s'emparait de moi et exerçait sa délicieuse et grisante emprise. Plus je lisais, plus j'avais faim. Chaque ouvrage était riche de promesses, chaque page que je tournais était une équipée, l'attrait d'un autre monde.

Trangen til å lese tok meg og holdt meg i sitt deilige, berusende grep. Jo mer jeg leste, desto mer hungret jeg. Hvert verk var rikt på løfter; hver side jeg bladde om, var en eventyrferd, tiltrekning fra en annen verden.

Nå vet jeg at som leser må man ha tillit til forfatterne, til dikterne. De vet hvordan de skal gå frem for å rykke oss opp fra vårt vanlige liv og sende oss gyngende over i en annen verden vi ikke engang ante eksisterte. Det er det talentfulle forfattere gjør.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

When he hipped me to Go Tell It on the Mountain, he didn't say one word about Jimmy being a homosexual.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

Verba volant, scripta manent. In Tiv you would say, 'Spoken words fly away, written words remain.

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness....

I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.

A lot of the books I read are in Spanish. There's this great author, Garcia Marquez.

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.