Quotes About Literature

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!

Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic.

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

I am not a fan of books.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.