Quotes about Literature
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
I never tire of reading Tom Paine .
— Abraham Lincoln
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
— Abraham Lincoln
Because books, my friends, are true magic bound between two covers.
— Dolly Parton
A room without books is like a life without meaning.
— Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Sowell asserts that by the late 1960's, black men from families with a library card, magazines and other literature in the home reached high-level occupations as often as white males of similar backgrounds.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
— Ernest Hemingway
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.
— Ernest Hemingway
If you brought up Joyce twice, you would not be invited back.
— Ernest Hemingway
For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.
— Ernest Hemingway
We all ought to make sacrifices for literature.
— Ernest Hemingway
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
— Ernest Hemingway