Great Literary Quotes:

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

- Manuel Puig

topic: Literature, Influence, Great Literary

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Cute, Friendship, Men, Great Literary, Great Gatsby American Dream

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

- Charles Dickens

source: A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

topic: Spring, Winter, Light, Incredulity, Great Literature

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Inspirational, Time, Powerful, Jazz Age, Great Literature

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

- Matthew Kelly

topic: Prayer, Reading, Exercise, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Inspirational, Education, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: Source: www.mirror.co.uk

topic: Father, Years, Advice, Great Literature, Great Father

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Thankful, Attitude, Kindness, Jazz Age, Great Literature

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

- George Orwell

topic: April, Cold, Clock, Dystopia, Great Literature

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

- Lafcadio Hearn

topic: Kings, Lasts, Language, Great Literary

These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don't know. But I don't think she was any great literary breakthrough.

- William A. Rusher

topic: Thinking, Use, Cash, Great Literary

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.357, e-artnow

topic: Littles, Enough, Knows, Great Literary

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

- John Grisham

topic: Apples, Orange, Serious, Great Literary, Apples And Oranges

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

- Michael Scott

topic: Stories, Influence, Storytelling, Great Literary, Literary Works

We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to read books the better our society will be and the wiser our society will be.

- George Brandis

topic: Book, Thinking, Australia, Great Literary

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

- Yann Martel

topic: Giving, Originality, Sometimes, Great Literary, Literary Works