Quotes about Literature

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Books, for me, have always been a way to escape. They were my path to personal freedom. I actually learned to read at the age of three, and once I did, I quickly learned that there was a whole world beyond my grandmother's farm in Mississippi.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable