Literature Quotes

I taste her and realize I have been starving. - Jodi Picoult

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. - Joseph Brodsky

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. - George R.R. Martin

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. - Francis Bacon

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. - Gustave Flaubert

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Bradbury

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. - C.S. Lewis

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. - William Styron

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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles William Eliot

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C.S. Lewis

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. - Dr. Seuss

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don’t read. - Mark Twain

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them don and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. - John Green

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

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. - John Green

We read to know we’re not alone. - William Nicholson

Emotions come and go and can’t be controlled so there’s no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone. - Nicholas Sparks

If you want a happy ending that depends of course, on where you stop your story. - Orson Welles

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. - A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

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