Quotes about Literature

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

In these days when anything goes in literature, movies, and even TV, to think there are some places so isolated, so backward, so ill-informed as to what's going on in the world

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

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.