Quotes about Literature
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
- Ernest Hemingway
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
- GK Chesterton
This was such bad writing that it was good.
- William Saroyan
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
- Mark Twain
I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.
- Sheryl Sandberg
At 19, while studying at St Xavier's College and majoring in literature and sociology, I got my first job as a copywriter. It was at a company called the Script Shop.
- Zoya Akhtar
England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.
- Victor Hugo
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
- Victor Hugo
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
- Victor Hugo
Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.
- Aldous Huxley
I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.
- Elie Wiesel
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
- Oscar Wilde