How many a man has dated a new era in his life from
the reading of a book.—Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The duty of literature is to note what counts and to
light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it
becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.—Anatole France
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that
faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.—Arthur Conan Doyle
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.—G. K.
Chesterton
What is wonderful about great literature is that it
transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.—E.
M. Forster
Great literature is simply language charged with
meaning to the utmost possible degree.—Ezra Pound
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
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply
describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires
and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have
already become.—C. S. Lewis
"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, The Catcher in the Rye
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.—John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
