Quotes about Literature
Read anthing, trash or trashier; and listen to thrash. Espceially 83-90 era. They will absorb you. You will be in dire need of beer. Now that's something you must be picky of.
- William Faulkner
Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
- William Faulkner
A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe. (on Mark Twain)
- William Faulkner
I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
- Heinrich Heine
Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
- Oscar Wilde
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
- Lewis Carroll
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
- Samuel Johnson
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.
- Anne Lamott
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
- George Bernard Shaw
The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.
- John Updike