Quotes about Literature
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
Putnam increased the first print run to 75,000 copies, more than any science fiction hardcover printing in history.
- Frank Herbert
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
- Oscar Wilde
I'm given a lot of credit with opening the doors for Christian fiction. It was kind of a difficult field when I got into it... But I don't feel like a king.
- Frank Peretti
A book, too, can be a star, explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
- Madeleine L'Engle