Literature Quotes

"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."

"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house."

"You haven't read in years."

"Books say: she did this because. Television says: she did this. Millions of people watching, not doing."

"It was not my books they were after, it was me."

"That is my favorite book"

"Books are so strange"

"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house."

"Number one: Do they have quality? Number two: Do they have guts? Number three: Do they open up the world?"

"My wife says books make you unhappy."

"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house"

"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her"

"That was I. That was the author of this book."

"The best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts."

"Listen to this one...it's even more important than the one before"

"Listen to this one, baby"

"The best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts."

"That is my favorite book, The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevski."

"Somebody had to write the story of the Second World War and I had to do it."

"Words have a power that escapes us"

"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages."

"I let him run on, this papier-mâché Mephistopheles"

"There ain't nothing more to write about"

"There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects."

"That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain"

"Books are our best friends when everything else fails."

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

"I never cared much for books"

"The written word becomes our greatest defense."

"I like good strong words that mean something."