Quotes About Literature

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

He is no mean poet, and his verse can rouse or persuade even if his logic fail to convince. His message is not for the Mohammedans of India alone, but for Moslems everywhere: accordingly he writes in Persian instead of Hindustani—a happy choice, for amongst educated Moslems there are many familiar with Persian literature, while the Persian language is singularly well adapted to express philosophical ideas in a style at once elevated and charming.

Sanat de?i?imi biriktirir, zamana yayar. ?yi bir kitap yaln?zca okuma hazz?n?z? beslemez, ayn? zamanda sizde uyand?rd??? duyguyu ba?kalar?na aktarma arzusu verir size. Ya?am?n döngüsü miras? devretmek üzerine kuruludur.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

Continuous reading is the price that each author must pay.

Don't review or credit a book after reading it once. Credit it on your second read and criticise it only after you've done your third try of the same book.

Most books are worthy but they are not practical. Because I am a lover of non-fiction works.

No one likes war, but war books are the most famous of each generation.

One book makes a complete religion. Let the future authors aim for quality rather than quantity.

There will always be a touch of fiction in non-fiction books and reality in works of fiction.

As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, I feel like the story is a specimen in a sealed glass jar and not a living, breathing creature I want to take by the hand and talk to for hours on end.

A cynic once defined a metaphor as 'a simile with the words of comparison left out'.

The word 'metaphor' itself can be used in a non-literal way.

Rabbinic literature, though it includes plenty of material from before AD 135, tends to see everything in the light, not of a continuing story about God and Israel within the ongoing flow of world history, but of the much thinner, often dehistoricized world of Torah-piety.

It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.

What those women do in the name of literature. It gives reading a bad name.

it is by robbing Sita of her voice that victimhood has been made palatable for women—indeed their highest destiny—through literary manipulation.

For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands.

The amount of insight to be gained from reading novels is tremendous.

Es terrible que estuviéramos tan asustadas de que nos vieran con libros que tenemos todo el derecho a leer

her secret guilty pleasures were the ghost stories of Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen.