Quotes About Literature

Idézet, "én", idézet vége, foglalta össze Esti Kornél a modern utáni irodalmi törekvéseket és azok nyomorúságát és szükségszer?ségét, majd meghalt, de nem bírt.

Egy idézet Thomas Manntól – vagy GoethétÅ'l?, minden idézet vagy Thomas Manntól, vagy GoethétÅ'l való – mutatja az irányt: Író az, akinek gondot okoz az írás.

De, ismétlem, a valódi irodalmi m?, nem is okvetlenül a remekm?, mint egy élÅ'lény: kimeríthetetlen. És szabad.

Az úgynevezett irodalmi szenzációk többnyire nem irodalmiak, bár mivel azt, mi az irodalom, nem tudja senki élÅ' ember, azt is jótékony homály fedi, mi az irodalmi szenzáció. Talán itt is úgy van, hogy az az, amit annak mondanak.

Always read the stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.

He [his uncle, Pliny the Elder] used to say that there was no book so bad that it was not useful at some point. Pliny the Younger, Epistula III.5.10

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Mi vida no valdrá nada si la gente de Félix Díaz se entera de que soy el autor de México bárbaro".

There is a great deal of solemn discussion about The Novel. In fact, every novel is an answer to the ancient plea, 'Tell us a story.

Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Why do all your friends talk like books?

At the moment, if you asked me, I would say that this book is about keeping the heart of flesh in a world that wants to put in a heart of stone; and about how, regardless of the accusations regularly flung at them from all quarters, learning and literature can help their adherents accomplish that.

I've got the first two books," Calla said. "I'll loan them to you." The young woman seemed momentarily surprised and then happily agreed. "I guess that's what people who read stuff do," she said. "They loan books to each other.

This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing. There is no way to finish, and perhaps that shouldn't be the goal.

At this point, there is no human way that I could read even those books I've deliberately marked as absolute must-reads. [ . . . ] This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing

Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.

The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an "anti-library," a vast collection of books he had not read, believing that one's personal trove should contain as much of what you don't know as possible. Some

For a girl who often felt like she lived more in the cozy world of books than in the unforgiving world of the playground, a book of books was the richest journal imaginable; it showed a version of myself I recognized and felt represented me. Over

Tillie Olsen. James Joyce. Robert Stone. I must have read Updike's Rabbit, Run five times and Bellow's Herzog

In college, books assigned for class were read as competitive sport - the more critically, the better.