Quotes About Literature

To my fellow authors heed these words with much importance, " It is redundant for a true writer to sell their soul for literary fame, since the soul is a writer's inner voice...

You haven't learned anything, until you've read a good book.

I shall never exchange reading for riches.

When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.

Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

I like to think I've written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

la curiosidad no afecta a los muertos, no se vierte hacia ellos pese a tantas películas y novelas y biografías que justamente indagan eso, las vidas delos que ya no viven

no deberían descalificar nunca un libro «porque sí». Ninguna novela resiste en la memoria colectiva si no es porque ha tocado «algo», una fibra invisible de nuestra sensibilidad, o ha aportado alguna respuesta a las dudas de sus lectores. El desafío que plantean esa clase de libros es saber de qué se trata. Y para averiguarlo, a veces se hace necesario descomponer la obra, desmontarla en piezas para intentar encontrar ese elemento.

Quién querría enseñar liderazgo cuando la academia no cree en los líderes? Al mismo tiempo, la literatura inglesa reemplazó a los clásicos y el pensamiento antiguo dejó de estar en boga.

Robert Frost suggested (with his usual sly wit) that a person uneducated in the operations of metaphor was not safe in the world, should not even be let out of doors.

Tristram Shandy

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.