Quotes About Literature

The dark hair and dark eyes made her think of a Brontë-hero, Heathcliff or Rochester, she wasn't sure.

You know her, then?

And he said I read too many mystery novels, which is impossible. You can never read too many books, any kind.

anything worth anything can be found in books

good a writer." "I'm not bad, but you're right, book form isn't my strength. I'll hire a ghost this time.

He never had a first read on the nightstand, not if he wanted to sleep, so he settled in with the familiar and fascinating

In reading he found solitude. In reading he could dispel the blare of the world.

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

My feelings about politics and literature and mathematics and the rest of life's minutiae can only be described through a labyrinthine of six-sided questions, but everything that actually matters can be explained by Lindsey fucking Buckingham and Stevie fucking Nicks in four fucking minutes.

Jewel moved 432,000 hardcover copies of A Night Without Armor, thereby making her the best-selling American poet of the past fifty years.

I have a colleague who feels anyone over the age of twenty-one caught reading a Harry Potter novel should be executed without trial, but that strikes me as unreasonable; the fact that they're written for British thirteen-year-olds probably means they're the right speed for 90 percent of American adults.

The reason things unacceptable in life are acceptable in fiction is because fiction is often the only way we can comfortably examine the morally obscene. For

Literary posterity may

A book becomes popular because of its text, but it's the subtext that makes it live forever. For

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.

It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!

Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?

Slang is the writer's palette of colors.

Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone, A Tale of Two Titties...

From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports...At this point I am an authority on menstruation.

Write what you'd like to read.