Quotes About Literature

Maybe every talk about poetry is a defense of poetry...

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

Books don't need to be published," Lars Högström said. "The main thing is that they should be written.

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.

And all you can do is just read," she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.

When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. "Does your sister read our books?" Anna wanted to know. "No. She reads literature.

Pappan tystnade och började bekymrad bläddra i memoarerna. Tycker ni jag har använt för ovanliga ord? frågade han. Det gör nog inget, sa Mumintrollet. Det var ju för så länge sen och man kan nästan gissa vad du menar.

It's a beautiful thought, to meet a writer only in her books.

One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many books and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.

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Mr. Benedict, sir, have you read all the books in this house?" Mr. Benedict smiled, glancing fondly about at the many books in his study before looking at Reynie again. "My dear boy," he said, "what do you think?

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

from the shelf. Ben's stomach churned as he pulled out Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. Kenzie would enjoy them, but had Marianna ever read those books before? Not that Dr. Seuss was literature. What

68 Gold Medallion awards for its books, more than any other publisher.

There are more men lurking in sheds in my garden than in any D.H. Lawrence novel.

I looked at him curiously. 'I thought you only read non-fiction and Terry Pratchett?' 'I ran out of anything to read in the hospital and it was that or a lot of ditsy novels about cupcakes and fairy-wing repair shops by the beach.' 'I don't think I've come across the fairy-wing repair shop one,' I mused. 'Probably not: I made it up.' 'Maybe you should write it?' I suggested, then reverted back to the subject in hand.