Quotes About Literature

You should first of all assimilate the model. This is complicated. You study it from the point of view of the epoch, the time, the country, condition of life, background, literature, psychology, the soul, way of living, social position, and external appearance; moreover, you study character, such as custom, manner, movements, voice, speech, intonations, All this work on your material will help you permeate it with your own feelings. Without all this you will have no art.

When I'd gotten older, she'd taught me to read on my own, telling me, "If you ever doan like where you are, open a book, and it'll take you somewhere else. It's a kind of magic, cher." I

I want the Reader of Words to scan it before I send." She bent down and pressed a kiss to his neck. "Our story's pretty epic.

When I'd gotten older, she'd taught me to read on my own, telling me, "If you ever doan like where you are, open a book, and it'll take you somewhere else. It's a kind of magic, cher.

Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I've got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.

Each novel is a message in a bottle cast into the great ocean of literature from somewhere else.

When I am not reading Kafka I am thinking about Kafka. When I am not thinking about Kafka I miss thinking about him. Having missed thinking about him for a while, I take him out and read him again. That's how it works.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

Mary-Lynnette: You have not read 'Pride and Prejudice'. Ash: Why not? Mary-Lynnette: Because Jane Austen was a human. Ash: How do you know? Mary-Lynnette: Well Jane Austen was a woman, and you're a chauvinist pig. Ash: Yes, well, that I can't argue.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.