Quotes about Literature
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
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