Literature Quotes

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

F. Sionil Jose
- Art
- Opinion
- Novelist
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

Umberto Eco
- Important
- Question
- Study

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

Yves Chauvin
- Always
- Literature
- New
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Seneca the Younger
- Death
- Leisure
- Burial
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

E. L. Doctorow
- Me
- Always
- Books
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Up
- World
- School
Reverence is fatal to literature.

E. M. Forster
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

S. I. Hayakawa
- People
- Life
- Good