4,370 Quotes About Literature

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! - take them out of this book, for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them

We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping , laughing... I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.

Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.

There are but twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, yet I must have read a quadrillion words.

Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe.

Like the vacationer who returns to a beloved summer house year after year, the addicted reader opens book three or four or eleven in a given series and is thoroughly at home in the locale—its by now familiar native characters, the verbal shrubbery and the narrative floorboards that occasionally creak.

Over the last 10 years, we've learned that there's still no better way to succeed in college than to be well read.

The greatest literature is the Biblical stories.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.