4,370 Quotes About Literature

Literature is the opiate of the educated masses.

That resplendent space created by a piece of fiction can really expand the width of time... Clearly there is a spot somewhere inside our heads they records that feelings we had when we read the book, and it stays with us forever.

That resplendent space created by a piece of fiction can really expand the width of time... Clearly there is a spot somewhere inside our heads that records the feelings we had when we read the book, and it stays with us forever

(If you read this story out loud, please use the following voices:ME: as a child, high-pitched, forgettable; as a woman, the same.THE BOY WHO WILL GROW INTO A MAN, AND BE MY SPOUSE: robust with serendipity.MY FATHER: kind, booming; like your father, or the man you wish was your father.MY SON: as a small child, gentle, sounding with the faintest of lisps; as a man, like my husband.ALL OTHER WOMEN: interchangeable with my own.)

Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.

His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary

Popular! In America, what else matters?

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Those who hate rain hate life.