4,370 Quotes About Literature

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

What you risk reveals what you value.