Quotes About Literature

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There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human Soul –

Oh, what an afternoon for heaven, When 'Brontë' entered there!

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think

No hay una fragata como un libro para llevarnos a tierras lejanas, ni caballos mejores que una página de piafante poesía. Pueden hacer el viaje los más pobres, no se pagan portazgos, porque no necesita casi nada la carroza que lleva al alma humana.

It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always seems to happen to the nicest authors.

sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

They're her book club but I don't know why because they're not reading books.

Please, he added. I meant to say, please. I've thought it all through. I've thought of nothing else. I haven't read a book in weeks!

Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it suit the palate of the people? Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace represents the chief literary output.

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When asked, Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with? - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul)

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun.

Obviously, that's a translation.)

In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.

Again we are re-minded of the fate of women in patriarchal society. How can we find the truth about their lives when most of the books were written by men?

The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead.

Lisait-il vraiment? Son oeil plissait, egare, sur les mots couches; il ne les reveillait pas, il les laissait dormir dans le troupeau du paragraphe. Il etait plus un gardien de livres qu'un lecteur.

Every time you read a book your mind touches that of the person who wrote it – even if they died a long time ago.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

Indubitably, eighteenth-century literature contains much that nineteenth-century historians might identify as 'domestic ideology', yet these themes were far from revolutionary. The dialectical polarity between home and world is an ancient trope of western writing; the notion that women were uniquely fashioned for the private realm is at least as old as Aristotle.