Quotes about Literature
All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.
— Eugene Peterson
I do not have, and never had, any interest in either the Bible or religion.
— Joseph Heller
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
— Virginia Woolf
Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.
— Beverly Lewis
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
— Stephen Hawking
I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
— JM Coetzee
My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
— Zig Ziglar
A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
— Joseph Brodsky
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
— Joseph Brodsky
By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.
— Joseph Brodsky
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
— Walt Whitman