Quotes About Literature

Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a terra, completamente assorta nelle meravigliose avventure di Pip e della vecchia signorina Havisham con la sua casa piena di ragnatele, persa nell'incantesimo che Dickens, il grande inventore di storie, aveva saputo creare.

Matilde non rispose. Rimase in silenzio, ribollendo di rabbia. Sapeva che odiare i propri genitori non era una bella cosa, ma non riusciva ad impedirselo. I libri le avevano mostrato la vita sotto una luce che loro ignoravano. Se soltanto avessero letto un romanzo di Dickens, o di Kipling, avrebbero scoperto che imbrogliare la gente e guardare la televisione non è tutto.

I'm sorry, I said. It's none of my business what you do. The trouble is, I'm a writer, and most writers are terrible nosey parkers.

Puffin is over seventy years old.

If your going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

But Goldilocks, like many freaks, Does not appreciate antiques.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives...All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen

And on the pillow of the bed lay the head

introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall." "The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books.

I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG. What is your name?

Yes, but I've read the books as well." Mrs. Phelps looked down at Matilda from her great height and Matilda looked right back up at her. "I thought some were very poor," Matilda said, "but others were lovely. I liked The Secret Garden best of all. It was full of mystery. The mystery of the room behind the closed door and the mystery of the garden behind the big wall.

He maintained that there was some kind of magic about English schooling and that the education it provided had caused the inhabitants of a small island to become a great nation and a great Empire and to produce the world's greatest literature. 'No child of mine', he kept saying, 'is going to school anywhere else but in England.

Si uno se detenía a curiosear a través del cristal, podía ver las paredes forradas de arriba abajo con libros y, si abría la puerta y entraba, inmediatamente lo envolvía el hedor a cartón viejo y hojas de té que impregna el interior de toda librería de lance de Londres.

Casi siempre había dos o tres clientes, figuras sombrías ataviadas con abrigo y sombrero Trilby, que hurgaban en silencio entre colecciones de Jane Austen y Trollope, Dickens y George Elliot, con la esperanza de dar con una primera edición.

Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don't understand,' Matilda said, 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that', Mrs Phelps said. 'And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

Qué libros más bellos leían! ¡Los niños que antaño leían!

GIANTS: THE FLESHLUMPEATER THE BONECRUNCHER THE MANHUGGER THE CHILDCHEWER THE MEATDRIPPER THE GIZZARDGULPER THE MAID MASHER THE BLOODBOTTLER THE BUTCHER BOY

Allí están, en tus cajones, junto a los petardos que te sobraron de Navidad y las canicas de cristal: tus libros.

Un libro cruje cuando lo abres, como una galleta, y los negros regueros de tinta, sobre el frágil papel, despiden un olor sutil y sabroso, semejante al de ciertas frutas livianas.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

The fact is I am a compulsive reader. Thirty-five cents' worth of Gold Medal Original will put me right to sleep. Or Perry Mason. But I'll read the ads in an old Paris-Match that has been used to wrap herring before I'll do without.