4,370 Quotes About Literature

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

I do believe literature holds the best of us . . . or perhaps it reflects the better versions of who we are.

A book is but a stack of paper until someone reads it. And when someone reads it, they build a house within its pages so whenever they return to that book, they feel right at home.

We take from books what we bring to them.

Books always leave a light on.

Imaginative literature is otherness, and as such alleviates loneliness

It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short. (...) If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.

Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

Books are the flung-open windows to a parallel universe.