4,370 Quotes About Literature

You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else’s life” Margot said. I smiled at her, not fully understanding what she was saying but feeling a small ping of comprehension, an olive pit smacking the wall of my consciousness.“You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself” Margot promised.

Late into the night she reads, and the lamplight falls in a soft circle across her tented knees, across the warm blankets, across Luca's casting breath. In their new home, Lydia rereads Amor en los tiempos del colera, first in Spanish, then again in English. No one can take this from her. This book is hers alone.

When reading literature, we become a thousand different people and yet remain ourselves.

I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.

Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.

I'd read it already, but I wanted to read certain parts over again.

The very best authors are no longer with us; so only read books written by dead people.

What if people don't like it? What if they don't even take the chance to read it, but they hate us for what's inside of it?