Quotes About Literature

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries.

Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.

Ik heb een hekel aan fantastische vertellingen. Sprookjes, dromen, saai-jans-fiction, de hele boel kan me gestolen worden.' 'Waarom, meisje?' 'Het gewone dagelijkse leven is al fantastisch genoeg.' 'Kind, kind,' de juffrouw hief de handen geschrokken ten plafond, 'waar haal je die onzin vandaan! Straks ga je nog zeggen dat de werkelijkheid fantastischer is dan een roman.

Ik was een naakte letter zonder alfabet

Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts

La lecture de tous les bons livres est comme une conversation avec les plus honnêtes gens des siècles passés.

the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them.

la lectura de todos los buenos libros es como una conversación con los mejores ingenios de los pasados siglos

Leer buenos libros es como conversar con las mejores mentes del pasado.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

The underground appeared in this novel as the failure and reversal of Christianity.

Il y a là une différence qui est un peu du même genre que celle que nous avons signalée, pour la Chine, entre la langue écrite et la langue parlée : l'arabe littéral seul peut présenter toute la fixité qui est requise pour remplir le rôle de langue traditionnelle tandis que l'arabe vulgaire, comme toute autre langue servant à l'usage courant, subit naturellement certaines variations suivant les époques et suivant les régions.

The simultaneous collapse of the religious and literary conceptions of the world have left society under the wrong impression that science was the ultimate judge of truth, rather than truth being the ultimate judge of science.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it was dandelion wine and ice cream on a summer porch, like Ray Bradbury, and catching catfish with Huck Finn. My own memories receded and the book memories became the real memories, far more than the outside, far more even than in here. B

Movies and television may be influencing writers to write more visually, using immediate scenes with specific points of view to put their stories across. But fiction can always accomplish something that visual media will never be able to match. ... One of the great gifts of literature is that it allows for the expression of unexpressed thoughts: interior monologue.

Confound it." He sighed clear down. "I was going to finish that book this evening. Now this infernal mishmash.

His had a nice rug which he said was an eighteenth-century Feraghan.

I had a classics professor at the University of Illinois who after giving a reading assignment said, with genuine emotion, "Oh, to be reading Boethius for the first time." And so I say to you, "Oh, to be reading a Nero Wolfe mystery for the first time." —Stuart M. Kaminsky