Quotes about Literature
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
— Alain de Botton
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
— Samuel Johnson
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
— Anne Lamott
No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
— Ian Mckellen
I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.
— John Updike
The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.
— Joseph Brodsky
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
— Tina Fey
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.
— Samuel Johnson
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
— John Lennon
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
— Marcus Aurelius
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
— Robert Frost
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
— Henry David Thoreau