Books Quote by John Berryman

Literature bores me, especially great literature

— John Berryman

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and…

— John Berryman

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is…

— Gwee Li Sui

“When you have a lot of books,you don't have to worry about getting bored unless you don't know the essence of reading.Reading is not…

— Mareez Reyes

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

— Amy Dickinson

Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.

— John Berryman

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with…

— John Scalzi

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson

Without literature my life would be miserable.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell

“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own…

— Maureen Corrigan

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

— Franz Kafka