Quotes about Literature

I'd wish that everyone had what I'm gradually beginning to acquire, the ability to read a book easily and quickly and to retain a strong impression of it. Reading books is like looking at paintings: without doubting, without hesitating, with self-assurance, one must find beautiful that which is beautiful.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

In these days when anything goes in literature, movies, and even TV, to think there are some places so isolated, so backward, so ill-informed as to what's going on in the world

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.