Quotes About Literature

The greatest adventure is reading!

Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.

If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.

Reading leads to wise ways of living.

As writers, we should remind ourselves, and each other, that Jane Austen and JK Rowling got rejected by publishers, too.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.

I only wish to read, think and write.

I can forgo my lunch to get the book, I love to read.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

There, stacked high on his desk, was a tower of paper. Thick slabs of manuscript. Slush. Unsolicited, unagented, unloved. This was where dreams came to die. Book proposals, cover letters, entire manuscripts – they gathered like so much detritus on the desks of publishers everywhere.

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation.

Books speak to us thoughtfully, one at a time. They demand our attention. And they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefs and prejudices and listen to someone else's. There's one questions I think we should ask one another a lot more often, and that's "what are you reading?

All readers have reading in common.

Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?