Literature And Reading Quotes
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Literature And Reading Quotes & Sayings
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Take my books away, and I should be desperate!
— Emily Bronte
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
— Alberto Manguel
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.
— Anthea Syrokou
Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person's vision of the future.
— Joshua Rogers
Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.
— Stephen Greenblatt
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
— Siri Hustvedt
Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.
— Margaret Atwood
Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.
— Arlaina Tibensky
Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.
— Anthony Esolen
Reading literary works enlightened and sheltered me; now I'm paying back by writing.--"My Confession — Zoe S. Roy
The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
— Jamie L. Harding
What you read when you don't have to ...
— Oscar Wilde
Literature gives great light and great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
— Kevin Wilson
A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
— F.R. Leavis
To translate knowledge and information into experience: that seems to be the function of literature and art.
— Joseph Campbell
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
— Stephen R. Covey
When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.
— Terry Hayes
Reading great works of literature, discovering poetry, and listening to the best composers are all ways that we learn to love the Creator more.
— Jennifer A. Marshall
I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it.
— Rabih Alameddine
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
— Alister E. McGrath
At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.
— Lisel Mueller
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
— Samuel Butler
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
— Lionel Trilling
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
— Julianna Baggott
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
— Kurt Vonnegut
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
— Annie Dillard
What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday.
— John Mark Reynolds
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
— Tom Spanbauer
Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar.
— Terry Tempest Williams
To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins)
— Elizabeth Spencer
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
— John Adams
Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds"~Vianka Van Bokkem — Vianka Van Bokkem
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
— Wislawa Szymborska
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
— John Burroughs
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
— George Gissing
Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.
— Anthony Burgess
Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.
— Joshua Rogers
A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.
— David Shields
