Literature Quotes

"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."

"There are moments when history ceases to repeat itself and becomes literature."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"Call me Ishmael."

"I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!"

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."

"This book is the Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges."

"Call me Ishmael"

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme"

"The pen is mightier than the lance."

"The pen should never be so hurried as the sword."

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."

"For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books."

"Thou speakest well, but I believe thou hast never read of knights-errant."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"The pen is mightier than the sword in the hands of those who know how to use it."

"Her legacy was a cautionary tale of unfulfilled desires."

"Words are instruments worn smooth by vulgar usage."

"She had read too many novels."

"She had read of passionate loves in the books."

"The pen and the heart are poor guides to living"

"She was a story that no author could finish satisfactorily"

"She was as much a product of her reading as of her circumstances"

"She had read too many novels to be content with her own life"

"She had confused novels with life and paid the price"

"She had read too many novels."

"She sought in books what life could not give her."

"She read novels the way others drink wine—to escape reality."

"The letter is the echo of the heart's secret language."

"She had read too many novels."