Quotes about Literature
It was a wicked game. "Homer," says Snowman, making his way through the dripping-wet vegetation. "The Divine Comedy. Greek statuary. Aqueducts. Paradise Lost. Mozart's music. Shakespeare, complete works. The Brontës. Tolstoy. The Pearl Mosque. Chartres Cathedral. Bach. Rembrandt. Verdi. Joyce. Penicillin. Keats. Turner. Heart transplants. Polio vaccine. Berlioz. Baudelaire. Bartok. Yeats. Woolf.
— Margaret Atwood
It's literature. It's all books. There are good books and bad books. Literary fiction can be bad, and so can sci-fi. Sci-fi can be wonderful and so can literary fiction. As long as it's a good book, who cares? Hold my attention; that's all I ask. Make me believe.
— Margaret Atwood
That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.
— Margaret Atwood
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