Quotes About Literature

Miguel de Cervantes

The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, other wise called the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.

Youngsters read it [Don Quixote's story], grown men understand it, and old people applaud it.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Hay quien se hunde en la lectura de novelas para distraerse de sí mismo, para olvidar sus penas...

Mira, eso del amor es una cosa de libros, algo que se ha inventado no más que para hablar y escribir de ello. Tonterías de poetas

Fascism is cured by reading, racism is cured by traveling.

Me parece ridículo el monopolio que los castellanos de Castilla y países asimilados quieren ejercer sobre la lengua literaria, como si fuese un feudo de heredad. Ni aun la anarquía lingüística debe asustarnos; cada cual procurará que le entiendan, por la cuenta que le tiene.

Kendilerini ve ac?lar?n? unutmak için roman okumaya sald?ran kimseler vard?r.

Amaba el libro, pero el libro espontáneamente elegido. Ella entendía que el vicio o la virtud de leer dependían del primer libro. Aquel que llegaba a interesarse por un libro se convertía inevitablemente en esclavo de la lectura. Un libro te remitía a otro libro, un autor a otro autor, porque, en contra de lo que solía decirse, los libros nunca te resolvían problemas sino que te los creaban, de modo que la curiosidad del lector siempre quedaba insatisfecha.

LITTERATURE: le meilleur papier hygiénique du siècle

Neither parents nor schools are very effective at teaching the young to find pleasure in the right things. Adults, themselves often deluded by infatuation with fatuous models, conspire in the deception. They make serious tasks seem dull and hard, and frivolous ones exciting and easy. Schools generally fial to teach how exciting, how mesmerizingly beautiful science or mathematics can be; they teach the routine of literature or history rather than the adventure.

Craters on Mercury have to be named for deceased poets; moon of Uranus are named for Shakespearean characters. For this type of object in the Kuiper belt, the rules said that the name had to be a creation deity in a mythology

There's no law against writing a boring book…but there ought to be.

Lewis Carroll. He was an odd one. Real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Completely denied having anything to do with the Alice books. Daft as a brush. You'd have liked him!

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

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You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

Just think of Emily Bronte, for example: psychotically bookish - but was there ever a woman screaming out so loudly for a good f***ing? I even suspect that's why Wuthering Heights carries on decades too long rather than sensibly drawing the curtains a little after Cathy's death. It was Bronte saying, 'Look - I'm simply going to keep on writing this stuff until someone comes and shags me raw.

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

Talvolta si può cadere nell'equivoco di credere che certa letteratura induca a certi comportamenti, quando è vero esattamente il contrario. È sempre la domanda a precedere la risposta. [...] La letteratura (anche quella disegnata) ha la possibilità di mantenere circoscritte nell'ambito della fantasia quelle ossessioni che altrimenti troverebbero un inevitabile sfogo nella realtà. [...] La censura è sempre dannosa.

Reading is really like trying to hit one tossed stone with another; the consonants are the stones, the vowels their velocity.

Tubman is the subject of more children's books than any other African American historical figure, including Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, her