Quotes about Literature
I knew I must do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.
— Alice Hoffman
There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.
— Alice Hoffman
My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.
— Alice Hoffman
Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so engrossed she would sometimes trip while navigating familiar streets.
— Alice Hoffman
Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...
— Alice Hoffman
First they burned the books, then the people who wrote them, then those who read them.
— Alice Hoffman
She wore a wide-brimmed black hat and men's trousers, and she carried a satchel of books to ensure that if she should finish one volume she would be handily prepared with the next.
— Alice Hoffman
In his opinion, a woman who loved books was the best sort.
— Alice Hoffman
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
— Anonymous
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
— Anonymous
Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.
— Ezra Taft Benson
He liked going to the library...
— Francine Rivers