4,370 Quotes About Literature

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Literature is my Utopia

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.