Quotes About Literature

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.

Books are men of higher stature.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.