Quotes about Literature

Books are kinder teachers than experience.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

Rabbinic literature, though it includes plenty of material from before AD 135, tends to see everything in the light, not of a continuing story about God and Israel within the ongoing flow of world history, but of the much thinner, often dehistoricized world of Torah-piety.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature and wisdom. And Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.