Quotes About Literature

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream , I must be dafter than I look.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.

Somebody once said that the library is actually the dominant life form on the planet. Humans simply exist as the reproductive means to achieve more libraries.

Books - Snell smiled - are a kind of magic.

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world," I said, "but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn't a mirror, it's an aspiration.

I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

Good evening," said the barman. "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" "Because Poe wrote on both?

They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.

Mr McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them for the same effect.

Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. I would give everything to ensure the novel's survival.

Take no heed of her, explained Jones apologetically. She reads a lot of books.

We remember David and Catriona Balfour as friends, colleagues, worthy members of our calling, protagonists in Kidnapped and Catriona and for all the booksploring they did— especially finding a way into Barchester, for which we will always be grateful.

Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now. Strive for the long now.

Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly, and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.

Joffy, said Joffy, brother of Thursday. Hamlet, said Hamlet,Prince of Denmark

Richard III was one of those plays that could repeal the law of diminishing returns; it could be enjoyed over and over again.

The trouble was, he could read Three Men in a Boat without a single smirk and viewed P. G. Wodehouse as " infantile," so I had a suspicion the affliction was long-lasting and permanent.

Sometimes living in the BookWorld is like living in Legoland.

Jasper Fforde