Quotes about Literature
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
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Shakespeare's words paint pictures in glorious colour in my language. They were written by a man whose use of words fits exactly into Xhosa.
— John Kani
By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
— Jay Parini
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation.
— Philip Schaff