Quotes about Literature

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.

Never index your own book.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

What a signal convenience is fame. Do we read all authors to grope our way to the best? No, but the world selects for us the best, and we select from these our best.

This outlook, one that said that American history must be the history of nature speaking through men, not of men shaping nature, became the single most powerful force in American intellectual life in the nineteenth century and shaped some of America's greatest works of literature, such as Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass and Walden, as well as generating an American school of philosophy , to be furthered by William James and John Dewey.

Shallow books make shallow men.)

Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Yossarian