Quotes About Literature

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

Writing is writing

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

Unformed, monstrous, and perhaps unidentifiable, deconstruction has moved virally through fields beyond philosophy and theory. Derrida advanced its progress in architecture, art, politics and law. And especially, in literature…

I'm not really sure what makes a book a "classic" to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.

Well, for starters, Abraham Lincoln didn't write 'To Kill a Mockingbird.

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book; now I would see a book as prolegomena for the notes.

My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser... I was the girl who loved everything geeky.

I read as easily as I breathe.

I apologize from distracting you from reading my books.

Here's a question I've gotten like 5 times this year. "I haven't read your books yet. Are they any good?" No, I only write shitty books. I love to spend a lot of time writing intricately shitty books and then being painfully truthful about the crapulous product of my shitty labor.

Side by side stood The Lady of the Lake, Treasure Island, and David Copperfield; and coverless and dogeared lay Robinson Crusoe, The Arabian Nights, and Grimm's Fairy Tales. There were more, many more, and David devoured them all with eager eyes. The good in them he absorbed as he absorbed the sunshine; the evil he cast aside unconsciously—it rolled off, indeed, like the proverbial water from the duck's back.

Mis hombres van a registrar la casa.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other very well.

There is, in Kafka, a sort of sleep-worship; he regards sleep as a panacea.

Vom Zufall des Gelesenen hängt es ab, was du bist.

Najbol?a definicija zavi?aja jeste biblioteka.

Romani su klinovi koje neki glumac što piše zabija u ?vrstu li?nost svojih ?italaca. Što bol?e prora?una klin i otpor, to ?e ta li?nost ostati raspolu?enija. Trebalo bi da država zabrani romane.

If anyone was ever cognizant of the need and function of 'litanies', it was Kafka.

Wenn man Bücher bei sich trug, waren Handgreiflichkeiten zu vermeiden. Er trug immer Bücher bei sich.

I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

The only wealth I'm interested in is a wealth of words.

Or was it simply to preserve a record of the ordeal I endured as an adolescent, at an age when one's knowledge of death and evil should be limited to what one discovers in literature?