Quotes in the category literature

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

J.D. Salinger

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

Victor Hugo

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Cassandra Clare

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Terry Pratchett

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

J.R.R. Tolkien

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G.K. Chesterton

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Alfred Hitchcock

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Howard Nemerov

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!

Connie Willis