Quotes About Literature

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

Maybe it was the novels I read - the racier Mills & Boon romances of late, Danielle Steel instructing me on international sex and sin.

What use is a good book...if you cannot share your pleasure in it with another?

Nada es tan desconsolador, para un libro, como morir virgen. A mí, casi me sucedió.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

La cultura, señores! Y dentro de ella, la más sublime de las artes. La poesía.

Leggere è un vizio solitario e innocente

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Lo que diferencia a los géneros literarios unos de otros, es la necesidad de la vida que les ha dado origen. No se escribe ciertamente por necesidades literarias, sino por necesidad que la vida tiene de expresarse.

We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive.

If I were going to read one of your books, which one would you recommend?" "I'd recommend one by another author.

I'm about to get on a plane here, and I'm packing recovery literature. All I know is I'm going to be the guy reading the book on co-dependency. That's what I know about me.

is often described as the finest illustrated manuscript of the entire Anglo-Saxon era.

such as charters and law codes, but never employed for great works of literature, theology or philosophy,

Two were works of Gregory the Great,

The works of other eighth-century chroniclers are pitifully thin compared to those written by Bede,

it is hard to discredit the idea that he worked on Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care,

Alfred's additional reason for assembling his A-list of intellectuals was to assist him in producing books

Remarkably, this Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (as it was later known) was written not in Latin, as was the practice in virtually every other literate corner of Europe, but in the everyday language that people spoke. By the end of the tenth century, this language had a name for the new state: it was 'the land of the Angles', Engla lond.4

The king was constantly asking for copies of particular texts, which he put together to form a little book

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

You get my idea. Nothing of "artistic" literature about it, just straight medicine, a universal panacea, a fetish in a sense: if you have a toothache go to your dentist and ask him if he is Dada.