Quotes about Literature
I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
- Toni Morrison
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
- Leland Ryken
If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.
- J. Oswald Sanders
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
- George Washington
All I have learned, I learned from books.
- Abraham Lincoln
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
- Malcolm X
You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.
- Emily Bronte
In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.
- Epictetus
Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.
- Michael Novak
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.
- Pramila Jayapal
I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.
- James Franco