Quotes About Literature

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of ?vila.....great stuff.

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

I think goodreads is the best place to look for books

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.

My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists.

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books.

That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Un buen libro es la preciosa savia del alma de un maestro, embalsamada y atesorada intencionadamente para una vida más allá de la vida.

Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros.