Quotes about Literature

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature," said Balph Eubank contemptuously.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

He reads next to nothing. It might interfere with his knowledge of the universe.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.

He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it

Over the past five years, I'd worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.

list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.