Quotes About Literature

Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?

Gibberish?" Jem suggested "Pornographic?" said Will at the same time. "Could be both," said Will. "Haven't you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before?

What is a book? Is it the binding, the ink, the pages, or the sum of the words contained?

And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the bookshop, with a parcel of books under his arm. The lady had given him a pitying look. "I read-erm-rather a lot," James went on, dreary master of the obvious. King of the obvious. Emperor of the obvious.

Who would ever want movies or TV when there are books?

Saw that movie,' said Kit. 'Read that book,' Tessa shot back.

Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is a picture book meritable of every child reader, whether he or she is just a beginner, or a bit more advanced.

Goodreads is like the Harold Washington Library Center of the Internet. It's exceptional.

I am an author of the analytical critique. And because of that, a ton of research is done by me in order to bring an examination into comprehensive being.

Nearly everything I do is independent. It's my nature, what being fiercely independent. And publishing my written works of literature under my own imprint—Quill Pen Ink Publishing—is no different.

Stephen King is my Maine man.

Books were heavy shit. Next time he offered to move someone, he'd make sure the person was less of an intellectual.

We should not, therefore, try to get 'behind' the work, Barthes argues. There is nothing there. Instead, 'the space of writing is to be ranged over, not pierced' (and the metaphor suggests that the quest for intention generates a kind of violence). We should look at the text, Barthes urges, not through it. And his manifesto concludes with a ringing declaration: 'the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author'.

Her stories do not bring in a realism in which

I just don't understand why some people think that every book you read ought to be "improving". No one goes to the cinema with the sole aim of having their mind expanded – entertainment is a fine raison d'etre for films so why not books?

any book incapable of offending someone isn't worth the time it takes to read it.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.

So my name is Scout. Yeah, my mom read To Kill a Mockingbird. Leave it to her to think 5th grade required reading is totally deep.

September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.