Quotes About Literature

other forms of conversation will always remain. Speech, for example, and writing.

There being no international copyright laws, "pirated" editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.

One of benefit of fiction: it puts your mind off your reality when your reality is off-putting.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more.

n Mens het letterkunde in jou lewe nodig, want daarsonder gaan jy agteruit.

A frase do Otto é mais importante do que todo o Machado de Assis! ritinha

Sempre fui um autor correndo atrás da metáfora, das mais desvairadas metáforas. O adjetivo é minha tara estilística.

For literature, all the world is a stage.

Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.

I love the feel of a book. I love the touch and smell and sound of the pages. I love the handling . A book is a sensual thing. You sit in a chair with it or like me you take it to bed and it's, well, enveloping. Weird I am, I know(...)You either get it or you don't.

I read them all, read them one by one with a kind of constant hunger as if they were apples that fed and made you hungry at the same time.

Allora, come va il tuo libro, Ruth?' mi ha chiesto Timmy. 'Ruth vuol fare la scrittrice' ha spiegato a Packy. In realtà io non volevo fare la scrittrice, volevo fare la lettrice , aspirazione assai più rara. Ma sai com'è, una cosa tira l'altra.

Irish people will read anything as long as it's about them. That's what I think. We are our own greatest subject and though we've gone and looked elsewhere about the world we have found that there are just no people, no subject as fascinating as We Ourselves.

Ho letto tutti gli autori usuali, Austen, Brontë, Eliot, Hardy, ma Dickens è come un paese meraviglioso dove le persone sono più brillanti e vivaci, più comiche e più tragiche e in loro compagnia senti che il mondo è più ricco e fantastico di quanto immaginavi

Non ricordo in che libro fosse. Ma ora è in questo

love the feel of a book. I love the touch and smell and sound of the pages. I love the handling. A book is a sensual thing.

It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.

el autor se dará x satisfecho si el lector compra este libro

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!