Quotes About Literature

exist? emoÅ£ii nepermise, precum, de pild?, viÅ£elismul la poarta de aur fals a literaturii proaste. (...) Românul este, de altfel, leneÅŸ în viaÅ£a de toate zilele, liric în poezie, tembel în politic? ÅŸi impresionist în critica literar?.

Je meurs, vous entendez, je veux dire que je meurs, je n'arrive pas à le dire, je ne fais que de la littérature.

Cel care scrie a doua oar? Werther este un farseur care ÅŸtie Werther pe dinafar? ÅŸi-l transcrie, din memorie. AÅŸa ÅŸi situaÅ£ia literar? a României: repet?, mai prost.

Il sera une page dans un livre de dix mille pages que l'on mettra dans une bibliothèque qui aura un million de livres, une bibliothèque parmi un million de bibliothèques.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

Voltaire, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Ibsen! Atheists, fools, and madmen! And your poets! This Dowson, and this Baudelaire, and Swinburne and Oscar Wilde, and Whitman and Poe! Whoremongers and degenerates!

This same thing happens too, I think, in one of the most profound and important scenes in all of literature: Moses before the burning bush. Like autumn, the bush contains life-and-death in a single eternal process, the growing bush never consumed by the destructive fire that never dies. Like autumn, the bush, when Moses looks at it, reveals itself to be a person: I AM.

In the end, life becomes literature, and literature has meaning because life has meaning.

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend "a course of reading." Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

One gift the fairies gave me ... the love of books, the magic key that opens the enchanted door.

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Circulating libraries were denounced as purveyors of pornography and books of brain-rotting triviality.

He pronounced that novels were 'for ladies' maids' and ordered the librarian, 'Only give them history books. Men should read nothing else.

Churchill's written output was similarly immense. He published 6.1 million words in thirty-seven books – more than Shakespeare and Dickens combined – and delivered five million in public speeches, not counting his voluminous letter- and memorandum-writing.

I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.

Mr. Wellins said it didn't matter what a writer intended his work to mean, that the only thing that mattered was what it meant to the reader, and I guess I could see his point, but I still thought he was a creepy old pervert.

Literature was a form of intoxication, and many nights he read and wrote in his tower room till the cigarette butts littered the ash trays -- then wandered up to Nassau Street through the darkened campus for string potatoes and milk at Joe's.

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

Aga jah, Juku, selles on sul õigus küll, et eks see lugemine ole tõesti üks harjumus, sihuke harjumus, mis jääb külge ja pärast enam lahti ei saa, täpselt nagu suitsetamine. Aga suitsetamine on paha harjumus, lugemine on hea. Lugemise harjumus ei tee tervisele midagi. Suitsu sa teed?

Everything has been, everything has happened. And everything has already been written about.