Literature Quotes

"Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise." "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you" "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." "April is the cruellest month" "This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper" "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it" "The name of the rose is a mere symptom of our nostalgia for a time when names meant something." "The past is never dead. It's not even past." "I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan" "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one" "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" "The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work" "So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall." "There are no additional quotes by the author Muriel Strode available."