Quotes about Literature

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that... The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. That is all.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard. --Disgrace

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

I try to get through a book every two weeks.

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books.

It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality of the suffering of the artist, composer or writer, but it points to something creative and redemptive in the human person, made in the image of God, which can bring forth a thing of beauty in the midst of surrounding ugliness, brutality and evil. Nowhere is this more true than in the book of Lamentations.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.