Quotes about Literature
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
Don't you ever mind, she asked suddenly, not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
— Edith Wharton
He took [the book] up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffably tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions.
— Edith Wharton
as usual, kept the fire alive and the lamp trimmed; and the room, with its rows and rows of books
— Edith Wharton
He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.
— Edith Wharton