Quotes About Literature

curriculum committee were not entirely wrong. Death is not a philosophical issue; it is a literary one. And yet, if philosophy

As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have an impact on society, to put a personal stamp on history. . .Art and literature are the legacies we leave to succeeding generations. We'll be forgotten, but our books and essays, our stories and poems can survive us. . .

All I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama.

Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like. If you read a comic, it's showing you." The only answer I can give is, "You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?"

I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.

I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.

I entrench myself in books equally against sorrow and the weather.

People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?" [Interview in The Independent , 15 October 2005]

They're book addicts.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

They're book addicts.

The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end.

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

Literature doesn't exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.

In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance, it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles.

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-" "It's Herman Melville.

Countless writers express countless ideas on so many bits of paper, and at some unknown moment some specific book, even some specific sentence, will be the right one for the right person. We never know when some scrap of literature will have its finest hour.