Literature Quotes

"Buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them" "Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction" "It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf" "Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life" "Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content." "Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote" "To have great poets there must be great audiences too"