Quotes about Literature
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
- Milan Kundera
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.
- George W. Bush
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
- Walt Whitman
In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.
- David Platt
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
- William Golding
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
- John Milton
Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.
- Francine Rivers
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
- CS Lewis
A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
- Robert Frost
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
- Malcolm X
Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than before.
- James Sire
Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.
- James Sire