Literature Quotes

"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity" "To hold a pen is to be at war." "I am as constant as the Northern Star" "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book" "Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?" "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book" "The stories we love best do live in us forever" "One best book is equal to a hundred good friends, but one good friend is equal to a library." "Books are the mirrors of the soul." "Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners." "I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time." "I cannot live without books" "I have nothing to declare except my genius" "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." "To the Lighthouse was then an evocation of childhood; it was also an inquisition into the nature of reality." "I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language." "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid" "Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs. " "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."