Quotes about Literature
If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?
— Jacques Maritain
Librarians are serious people, seldom given to jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good books waiting to be read, leaving little time for frivolity.
— Lynn Austin
Down Cut Shin Creek: The Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky by Kathi Appelt and Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer.
— Lynn Austin
My chest of books divide amongst my friends--
— John Keats
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
— John Keats
Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.
— John Keats
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
— William Faulkner
To write for children at all is an act of faith.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
— John Milton
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
— John Milton
He who kills a person kills a reasonable creature, but he who kills a good book destroys reason itself.
— John Milton
I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.
— Gloria Steinem