Famous Literary Saying

Famous Literary Saying

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success.
Brian Tracy

Read something positive every night and listen to something helpful every morning.
Tom Hopkins

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Augustine (354-430)

One of the greatest gifts adults can give -- to their offspring and to their society -- is to read to children
Carl Sagan

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all
Henry David Thoreau

The minute that you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.
Will Rogers

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
John Donne

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
Anna Quindlen

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf`

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
Nora Ephron (1941-) US author, screenwriter

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking Albert Einstien

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
Eric Anderson

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
George Washington

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday. I look back on my life a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.
Grandma Moses

"I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant"
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."
Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)

"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries."
Stephen King quotes (American Writer, best known for his horror novels. b.1947)

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it."
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything"
Aldous Huxley quotes (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write"
Thomas Carlyle quotes (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881)

"I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy"
Anton Chekhov quotes (Russian playwright and master of the modern short story, 1860-1904)

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
Gaston Bachelard quotes (French Philosopher and Poet. 1884-1962)

"Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality"
C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.
Amy Li

We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
Axl Rose Quote

True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.Unknown

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."""
Bernard Meltzer