Quotes about Literature
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.
- Elie Wiesel
The only wealth I'm interested in is a wealth of words.
- Elie Wiesel
Even if I wrote on nothing else, it would never be enough, even if all the survivors did nothing but write about their experiences, it would still not be enough. *Response when asked how much longer is he going to write about the Holocaust.
- Elie Wiesel
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Well, everyone in my family is a writer. There is a big contribution on the script level by everyone.
- Zoya Akhtar
One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
- Jay Parini
I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.
- Olga Tokarczuk
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
- Elie Wiesel
Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.
- Richard Paul Evans
Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.
- Richard Paul Evans
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
- CS Lewis