Quotes About Literature

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

I picked out F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair and a couple of mysteries, which always have simple, solvable problems like How did the murderer get into the locked room? instead of hard ones like What causes trends? and What did I do to deserve Flip? and then went over to the eight hundreds.

I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.

Moom' and 'tomb' actually rhyme, which is something Dickinson hardly ever did, preferring near-rhymes such as 'mat/gate', 'tune/sun,' and 'balm/hermaphrodite.

This gave me an early taste for humorous authors, of which there were—and are—far too few (though there are lots who labor under the misapprehension that they're funny.)

Ludzie mówiÄ…, ?e ksi??ki sÄ… azylem od tego Å›wiata, i majÄ… racjÄ™.

But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.

the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation.

Sheddan said once that having read a few dozen books in common was more binding than blood.

having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks? asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them, said Meggie.

My children were all made from paper and printer's ink...

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

Weren't all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.

If you take a book with you on a journey,' Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, 'an odd thing happens: the book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it.

Bücher müssen schwer sein, weil die ganze Welt in ihnen steckt.

Manche Bücher müssen gekostet werden, manche verschlingt man, nur einige wenige kaut man und verdaut sie ganz.