Quotes about Literature
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
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- Aldous Huxley
Every man's memory is his private literature.
- Aldous Huxley
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
- William Temple
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.
- Joseph Brodsky
Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.
- Ilaiyaraaja
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
- Candace Bushnell
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.
- Margaret Atwood
I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
- Lydia Millet