Quotes About Literature

Scholars of English literature have tried to chart the construction of domesticated femininity, although there is a certain confusion as to whether the new domestic woman was the epitome of bourgeois personality, or was an ornament shared by the middling ranks and the landed.

the extraordinary eighteenth-century proliferation of literature which glamorized romantic experience.

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

All men should give books instead of flowers.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Pitam se nemamo li svi mi u sebi svog neprijatelja i kako se protiv njega boriti?Za mene je borba protiv njega ?in pisanja,trenutak kad se osje?am dovoljno snažnom.Izme?u mene i njega tad se odvija dijalog i nije slu?ajnost što u mojim knjigama ima mnogo dijaloga.Rijetko osje?am mir.

others, like me, take refuge in books.

Kansan sisin on sen kirjallisuudessa. Siinä se paljastaa intohimonsa, toiveensa, haaveensa, turhaumansa, uskomuksensa, maailmankatsomuksensa ja näkemyksensä itsestä ja muista, myös meistä itsestämme.

Le plus important dans une Å"uvre littéraire, ce n'était pas le message que l'auteur avait souhaité nous transmettre, mais les nourritures intellectuelles et affectives que chaque lecteur pouvait y puiser lui-même.

La intimidad de un pueblo es su literatura. En ella quedan desveladas sus pasiones, sus aspiraciones, sus sueños, sus frustraciones, sus creencias, su visión del mundo que los rodea, su percepción de sí mismos y de los demás, incluida las que tienen ellos de nosotros.

N'est-ce pas l'une des vertus de l'écriture que de coucher sur la même feuille horizontale le futile et l'exceptionnel ? Tout reprend dans un livre l'épaisseur négligeable de l'encre écrasée.

Having read all of whitie's books, I wanted to be an authority on them. Having been taught that art was "what white men do," I almost became one, to have a go at it.

Internationalism' is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.

Toni Morrison read The New York Times every day with pen in hand, making corrections she felt necessary, deleting words or inserting them as she went along.

I find myself subject to the entire range of emotions and reactions that a great book will call forth from its reader. I chuckle, laugh out loud, smile wistfully, cringe, widen my eyes in surprise, and even feel sadness--all from the neatly ordered rows of words and their explanations. All of the human emotions and experiences are right here in this dictionary, just as they would be in any fine work of literature. They just happen to be alphabetized.

U]se extreme caution, and please remember that 451 degrees Fahrenheit is more than just a book a title....

All of the human emotions and experiences are right there in this dictionary, just as they would be in any fine work of literature. They just happen to be alphabetized.

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.