Quotes About Literature

O paraíso neste mundo se encontra no dorso dos alazães, nas páginas de alguns livros e entre os seios de uma mulher.

Although, if you like everything you read, I can't take you seriously. Perhaps you didn't think about these books long enough.

He read through Dickens, Thackeray, Hardy, Austen, and Trollope, then moved on to the Continent to read through much of Balzac, Zola, and Flaubert, then fell in love with Tolstoy. His favorite was Goethe; he must have read The Sorrows of Young Werther at

In literature, I've never been without consolation. Books have found me at every stage of my life, reminding me that if a character could change, so could I.

He read through Dickens, Thackeray, Hardy, Austen, and Trollope, then moved on to the Continent to read through much of Balzac, Zola, and Flaubert, then fell in love with Tolstoy. His favorite was Goethe; he must have read The Sorrows of Young Werther at least half a dozen times.

Like a man starved, Noa filled his mind, ravenous for good books.

Noa loved to read. The best. He loved to read.

I knew that the best way to get out of chores, or sports, or talking to elderly relatives on the phone was by holding up a book and saying, "But I'm just enjoying Little House on the Prairie so much!

Un lugar tan hermoso no puede existir en realidad. Era literatura, era ficción, y nosotros éramos los personajes de un poema.

Hay un lugar en el mundo donde lo imposible es posible, se trata de la ficción, es decir, la literatura. Allí las leyes del cálculo de probabilidades pueden ser infringidas, allí puede aparecer un hombre más poderoso que el azar. El Ruletista no podía vivir en el mundo, lo cual es en cierto modo una forma de decir que el mundo en el que él vivía era ficticio, que era literatura.

hacia el final, inventó una lengua nueva y desconocida, la lengua de la infelicidad, esa en la que están escritos todos los libros verdaderos.

Net als seks, net als drugs, net als alle manipulaties van onze geest, die eindelijk eens uit je schedel zou willen uitbreken en de wijde wereld in trekken, is literatuur een werktuig dat eerst gelukzaligheid produceert, en vervolgens teleurstelling. Na tienduizend boeken te hebben gelezen, kun je niet om de onvermijdelijke vraag heen: waar was mijn leven al die tijd?

Ca È™i sexul, ca È™i drogurile, ca toate manipul?rile minÈ›ii noastre ce-ar vrea s? sparg? odat? È›easta È™i s? ias? la larg, literatura e o maÈ™in? de produs mai întâi beatitudine, apoi dezam?gire.

Porque los personajes no mueren jamás, viven siempre que su mundo es «leído». Aunque jamás consiga besar a su amada, el pastor pintado en una urna griega sabe al menos que la va a contemplar eternamente. Esta es mi apuesta y mi esperanza.

La lengua de la infelicidad, esa en la que están escritos todos los libros verdaderos.

Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince is a book all French people know well. It can be read in an hour but is packed with timeless wisdom.

I have seen many beatings Set your heart on books! I watched those seized for labor There's nothing better than books!

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read." —MARK TWAIN

Ljudi ?itaju kako ho?e (da ?itaju), a ne kako je napisano." (Zapisi iz godine 1933, Djetinjstvo 1902-03 i drugi zapisi, str. 286.; Sabrana djela Miroslava Krleže, sv. 27, Zora, Zagreb, 1972.)

Ovi pisari srednjoškolskih ?itanki naro?ito su odabrani kameleoni koji blistaju mijenjanjem svoje farbe po na?elu rentabiliteta.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

He was, after all, an avid reader, preferring the detached solace of a book above most human interaction. Yet

He couldn't believe that there were so many books in the world. Who could possibly read them all?

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.