4,370 Quotes About Literature

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The history of time is captured by poet, artist, writer, photographer…!

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,      Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think;      ’T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link      Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that’s his.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.