Great Literary Quotes

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don't know. But I don't think she was any great literary breakthrough.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to read books the better our society will be and the wiser our society will be.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.