Quotes about Literature
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
— John Wooden
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
— Joseph Addison
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.
— Joseph Brodsky
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
— Ellen Glasgow
Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature," said Balph Eubank contemptuously.
— Ayn Rand
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
— Barbara Kingsolver
He reads next to nothing. It might interfere with his knowledge of the universe.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
— Stephen Covey
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
— Thomas Merton
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
— Joseph Addison
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.
— Joseph Addison
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it
— Joseph Heller