Quotes About Literature

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream!

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man.

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.