Quotes About Literature

A proper library has at least one fantastic librarian, preferably more than one, so if the fantastic librarian goes out to lunch or falls into a tar pit, there will be a spare.

I thought the war was a simple matter, with one side good and the other evil. But the more I read, the less clear it was.

You write poetry?" Klaus asked. He had read a lot about poets but had never met one. "Just a little bit," Isadora said modestly. "I write poems down in this notebook. It's an interest of mine." "Sappho!" Sunny shrieked, which meant something like, "I'd be very pleased to hear a poem of yours!

Villainy can win against one library, but not against an organization of readers.

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

It is difficult for me to exaggerate how much I love a library.

Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume.

All good writing is like this. It is why a favorite book feels like an old friend and a new acquaintance at the same time, and the reason a favorite author can be a familiar figure and a mysterious stranger all at once.

We must read mysterious literature, and be as bewildered by it as we are by the world, and we should write down our ideas, turning our stories, as if by magic, into literature.

Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down.

La gente malvagia non ha mai tempo per leggere.

I love a library. Just to walk inside one, and to breathe in a room where so much literature has been gathered, is such a powerful feeling that it often brings a tear to my eye, although that could also be my mild allergy to dust.

I stayed up all night reading.

Cijeli svoj život Klaus je vjerovao da ako ?itaš dovoljno knjiga, možeš riješiti bilo koji problem, no sad više nije bio siguran.

How does anyone know anything about anything? I read it, of course!

BRETT HELQUIST

Whether is was Uncle Monty's library of reptile books, or Aunt Josephine's library of grammar books, or Justice Strauss's library of law books, or, best of all their parents' library of all kinds of books - all burn up now, alas - libraries always made them feel a little better. Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

I've read up to Lot #49, which is a valuable postage stamp.

A good breakfast is better than a bad one, like a good book is better than having your toe chopped off.

The word "bubble" is in the dictionary, for instance, as is the word "peacock," the word "vacation," and the words "the" "author's" "execution" "has" "been" "canceled," which make up a sentence that is always pleasant to hear.

and all of it was dark. I could see tall shelves, and a few windows covered in thick shades that hid the starlight. In the middle of the room was a circular table with shadows gathered around it. "Who wrote The Wind in the Willows?" asked

literature," I said. "What's

There's a library," I said, "and a fine journalist, and several interesting people. That's more than most places have.

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