Quotes about Literature
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
— Carl Sagan
It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I - nor for that matter anyone else - will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old school girl.
— Anne Frank
Later on, when you are older, you won't enjoy anything., then you'll say: 'I read that in books twenty years ago.
— Anne Frank
She uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.
— Anne Lamott
Less than 3% of newly published authors make enough in royalties and advances to be happy to live on.)
— Seth Godin
Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
— Samuel Johnson
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
— George Bernard Shaw
'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.
— Mary Nightingale
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
— George Bernard Shaw