Books Quote by Agnes Repplier

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

— Amelia B. Edwards

“Letter writing is a habit that allows us to explore new trails all our lives. Each day is a fresh new adventure when we…

— Alexandra Stoddard

Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater…

— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away…

— Michelle Dean

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time…

— Irvine Welsh

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

— Henry David Thoreau

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in…

— Heloise

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she…

— Dani Shapiro