Quotes about Literature

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they make by splitting a verb in two and putting half of it at the beginning of an exciting chapter and the other half at the end of it. Can any one conceive of anything more confusing than that? These things are called separable verbs. The German grammar is blistered all over with separable verbs; and the wider the two portions of one of them are spread apart, the better the author of the crime is pleased with his performance.

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscious: this is the ideal life.

The Mormon Bible is rather stupid and tiresome to read, but there is nothing vicious in its teachings. Its code of morals is unobjectionable- -it is smouched [Milton] from the New Testament and no credit given.

They require that the author shall make the reader feel a deep interest in the personages of his tale and in their fate; and that he shall make the reader love the good people in the tale and hate the bad ones. But the reader of the Deerslayer tale dislikes the good people in it, is indifferent to the others, and wishes they would all get drowned together.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

At age fifteen, Martin entered Morehouse College in an accelerated program during World War II. As the U.S. pledged to fight fascism, racism, anti-Semitism, and colonialism, King was profoundly influenced through courses in sociology, history, philosophy, literature, and religion.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.

But the romance was there," I remonstrated. "I could not tamper with the facts." "Some

Are you well up in your Jean Paul?

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.