Quotes About Literature

On dividing a sher into six parts starting from the beginning to end, all the parts are known as ---sadar, hashu, urooz, ibtada, hashu and zarab.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

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. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

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.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

One of her best songs ever is 'Annabel Lee,' which she just released a few years ago on her underrated 2011 album In My Dreams . It's a six-minute sex-and-death trip with a lyric from one of her hot dead rock-and-roll boyfriends: Edgar Allan Poe. The key line is: 'The moon never beams without bringing me dreams.' Poe might have written that line in 1849, but he clearly always meant it for Stevie Nicks to sing.

Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast.

Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath. 'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala--why am I even arguing about this with you?

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the "unconscious." There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our "heart" or intuition, another.

A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these are major states of mind in contemporary imaginative literature.

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

Michal leaps out of the void as a name, a significant relation (Saul's daughter), and an emotion (her love for David). This love, twice stated here, is bound to have special salience because it is the only instance in all biblical literature in which we are explicitly told that a woman loves a man.

What we have in this great story, as I have proposed elsewhere, is not merely a report of history but an imagining of history that is analogous to what Shakespeare did with historical figures and events in his history plays.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.

Petit à petit, j'ai la impression que le goût de la lecture prend de plus en plus de place. Il me permet de me trouver seul avec une histoire, dans un coin du parc o sur mon lit. Ce que j'aime par-dessus tout, c'est cette possibilité que j'ai de m'arrêter, de revenir en arrière et de relire autant de fois que j'ai le désire.

And then for English verses, he said, they could not be certain of lasting applause, the changes of our language being so great and sudden, that the rarest poems within few years will pass for obsolete; and therefore he used to liken the writers in English verse to ladies, that have their pictures drawn with the clothes now worn, which, though at present never so rich, and never so much in fashion, within a few years hence will make them look like anticks.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Type designers are, at their best, the Stradivarii of literature: not merely makers of salable products, but artists who design and make the instruments that other artists use.

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us,Burns, Shelley, were with us—they watch from their graves!