Quotes About Literature

In literature, death was many things--- a message, catharsis, retribution. Death made you cry, filled you with sadness, but in the best of her books, there was peace, too, satisfaction, a sense of the story ending as it should. In real life, she saw, it wasn't like that. It was sadness opening up inside you, changing how you saw the world.

Ah. I should have known. You're one of us. … You're someone who finds herself in the pages,"…

Eva refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart.

Later that night, after Mamusia had gone to sleep, Tatus found Eva in the small library off the parlor, shelves piled high with all the books the two of them treasured so much. He had taught her to love reading, one of the greatest gifts a parent could give a child, and in doing so, he had opened the world to her.

Indeed. When it comes to books, the saucier, the better, don't you think?

refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart.

Some people are story collectors. While others collect seashells, or stuffed animals, or stamps, story collectors wrap themselves in words, surround themselves with sentences, and play with participle, even those pesky, perky dangling ones. They climb over Cs and mount Ms and lounge in Ls. Soon enough they land in the land of homonyms, then, wham! They stumble into onomatopoeia, that lovely creaking, booming bit of wordplay - and that, Dear Friend, is where our story begins.

He felt overwelmed when he thought of all the books he hadn't read, all the books he wanted to read, and all the books he would want to read. Not to mention all the books that he hadn't heard of. Those dismayed him the most.

Everyone ignores two important facts: one person's crap is another person's beloved book, and publishing has always produced books in great volume.

There are seven plots. Shakespeare wrote them better than anyone. If that scares you, leave now." If

If you read, you'll judge.

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

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I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no child should be left behind in

I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no should be left behind in

Texts like the Bible and the works of the holy elders were written under the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The person who studies them partakes of this Divine Grace in a mystical way. The soul is nourished with Grace even if the person who reads such literature does not understand the meaning of what is being read. "Just by reading this material," he claimed, "the individual becomes spiritually empowered by the Grace embedded in the words themselves.

If you will pardon my arbitrary, presumptuous use of the first person plural, then allow me to put it this way: unable to find any ultimate meaning we feel crushed enough already to be fed up with a literature that pretends there is such a thing and keeps hinting at some ultimate meaning.

Miss Amesbury is especially happy in the use of quotations—and an apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

A few years ago, I wrote Battlefield Earth to celebrate my golden anniversary as a writer. At nearly a half-million words, it was a bit larger than others I had turned out in my fifty-year career. But, after all, it was my anniversary so I decided to splurge.

The world existed to be read. And I read it.

And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it