Quotes About Literature

The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.

Literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.

All books are either dreams or swords.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past.

Words often outlive the people who create them.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

All Americans wrote better in Europe. They crossed the ocean, and every word they wrote was brilliant. "There's someone at my door," Maddy

I'm not an elitist. I just know how to read.

You can do what you like to a writer if you don't mind being put in a book.

One needs to be briefed before one talks to writers

Y se olvidó del «Ulises». Y de Polizón. Y de Marco Polo. Y de…, pero, ¿a qué seguir? Ninguna de estas cosas tiene nada de extraordinaro. Pues ya advertí en un principio que, al fin y al cabo, ésta era sólo la historia de un muchacho que, un buen día, creció.

Como ler - essa é uma grande questão que vamos encontrando a toda hora nesse mergulho pelos livros essenciais. Ler criticamente é uma das respostas. Significa que não se lê para concordar servilmente em atitude reverente, mas também não se lê para discordar e refutar num eterno desafio.

em pouco tempo poderemos ter o pesadelo de gerações que não conseguem entender a literatura atual porque não conhecem os clássicos que a procedem.

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldnt wait to leave.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New York Times, February 22, 1987)

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like and ancestral portrait.

I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel.... I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.