Quotes About Literature

A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing

In pointing out this parallel, I do not suggest that Hesiod is somehow the Greek equivalent of Moses or that his Theogony is to be granted the same status as Genesis.

Een James Bond-boek is stom maar opwindend, terwijl een meesterwerk van de Vlaamse literatuur even stom maar daarbij ook nog vervelend is.

Wie romanschrijver wil worden heeft het de eerste honderd jaar nogal moeilijk.

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.

Books are always good company if you have the right sort.

A love for good books is one of the best safeguards a man can have.

He understood my passion for books, which has made me perhaps the best-read idiot in the world.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

He read the familiar first lines of the book and felt the calm come over him, like a comforter.

she was left with the warmth of the words from books now ash.

He felt like a mobile library. Where other investigators gathered fingerprints and evidence, he gathered books.

You gave him The Gashlycrumb Tinies?" asked Stephen. "By Edward Gorey? Oh, I think I really do love you," he said to Ruth.

They're only just now decoding Dickens's Tavistock letter." It was the letter Jérôme Brunel was working on as part of his hobby.

Paul Hiebert's Sarah Binks, the cover said.

her book. Ngaio Marsh. Myrna was re-reading the classics.

God, that means she's written more books than she's read,' said Ruth.

Was there a Dewey Decimal number too? Winnie asked. He had the impression if she could snort Dewey numbers she'd get high.

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There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.