Quotes about Literature

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

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.

Later on, when you are older, you won't enjoy anything., then you'll say: 'I read that in books twenty years ago.

She uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.

Less than 3% of newly published authors make enough in royalties and advances to be happy to live on.)

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

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.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.