Books Quote by Glenway Wescott

One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and…

— David Nicholls

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

— David Shields

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out…

— William O. Douglas

The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense…

— Arnold Bennett

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

— Pliny the Younger

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

— Helen Keller

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers…

— Salman Rushdie