Quotes About Literature

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.

Never stop dreaming or reading.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.