Deny Quote by Ian Mcewan

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

Without literature my life would be miserable.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

— Haruki Murakami

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

— Anthony Powell

That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive…

— Anthony Lane

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

— Anonymous

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

— Nuala O'Faolain

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel