Quotes about Literature

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.

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.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.

There was indeed a " frightful lot" of books. The four walls of the library were plastered with them from floor to ceiling, save only where the door and the two windows insisted on living their own life, even though an illiterate one.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.

Never index your own book.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.