Quotes About Literature

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

Life is like this, and literature, imaginary conversations and true stories mingling like languages in translation.

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

And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil" -Quigley Quagmire

There are some librarians so trustworthy and so interesting that you know any book they recommend will be worth your time

Goodness!" he cried. "Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne!

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

Anyone can write one book; for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer

Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin wrote a book.

Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including 'assassination' and 'bump'?

Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.

Bree had explained it to us in the summary of her research. In twelfth-century French literature, the paladins, or twelve peers, were said to be the elite protectors and agents of King Charlemagne, comparable to the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legends. Paladin Inc. had been launched five years before by Vance

Something radically new, the producer tells me. Think Virginia Woolf with dead bodies and car chases.

What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

One thing about Faulkner I like, apart from the simplicity, on the whole, of his life, was that he wrote on the bedroom walls. That seems to me the true mark of a writer.

Nunca he llegado a tener afinidad ni a sentirme realmente cómodo con personas que no leen o que nunca han leído. Para mí es un requisito esencial. De lo contrario echo en falta algo, amplitud de miras, noción de la historia, una sintonía compartida. Los libros son contraseñas.

Dingen die je geschreven hebt, rijpen niet met je mee, zo lijkt me althans. De waarheid ervan kan bepaald zijn door de tijd, maar er bestaat niet zoiets als bij de tijd zijn wanneer de tijd voorbij is. Boeken blijven bestaan buiten de tijd om of ze houden op te bestaan. Dat is zoals het gaat in de literatuur. Boeken markeren een periode of een plaats, en geleidelijk worden ze die tijd en plaats'.

Si un libro es bueno, el escritor también ha de serlo.

She arranged her board and began a pen-and-ink drawing to illustrate a magazine story. Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

To forget things I like getting lost in the smell of old books, the scent of the gods.