Quotes About Literature

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.