Quotes about Literature
Before this I had never cared a great deal about it, but now I learned to love to read the Bible, not only for the spiritual help which it gives, but on account of it as literature.
— Booker T. Washington
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
— Helen Keller
Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.
— Helen Keller
Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
— Helen Keller
In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
— Helen Keller
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
— Margaret Atwood
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
— Virginia Woolf
I'm not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago.
— Cody Fern
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
— Maya Angelou
My fondness for good books was my salvation.
— Teresa of Avila
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
— Nadine Gordimer
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
— Henry David Thoreau