Quotes About Literature

Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

I like a writer who cares and takes sides. Pretending to be unbiased is only another kind of bias, and pretending to be dispassionate is often a way of supporting the status quo.

eight books sounds (and feels!) like a lot, but it isn't as if they'll last me all week.

I'm only fifteen. I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for some "real thing". What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody to talk about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn't we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.) I'm not looking for romance. Lord Peter and Harriet would seem a pretty good model to me. I wonder if Wim has read Sayers?

Do?ru, bu dünyada gerçekten de kötü ?eyler var; ama ayn? zamanda harika kitaplar da var.

Están los libros que te enamoran o los que olvidas

Amaro likes words. . . . I think he enjoys their taste.

Henry James escreveu não sei onde que ler um romance é olhar pelo buraco da fechadura.

I held it over my heart. Mrs. Worth smiled. "That's where a book should be carried.

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

A voracious reader with a large memory for what she read

children who are blessed with happy childhoods almost never grow up to become famous writers.

you're never alone if you've got a book for company.

And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by God she does it and does it and does it, over and over and over again. She is the protagonist of a Love Story.

I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their best work.

Cause I'm not really a Dr. Seuss fan." I stared at her, startled. "Em, you gotta be a fuckin' communist, you don't like Dr. Seuss. Jesus.

What should girls read?" Caroline asked, as Anna entered the library. "Everything," Anna replied. A

As he claimed the right to enjoy the literature of any period for the joy that was in it, so he claimed the liberty to profit from the insights of every generation open to his study. He would have been ashamed to know nothing of what was being said, written or done in his own day; but he felt under no obligation to find it better than the products of previous time, and especially than those which had passed the sieve of old oblivion.

It may be that the Chronicles of Narnia may outlive The Allegory of Love, and Perelandra outlive them both. Few works of learning and criticism survive a hundred years; what it was learned to know in 1950 will be expected of scholarship-candidates in 2000; new things will be discovered, old notions disproved, other critical values asserted; but a piece of genuine imagination in fiction may have a long life.

It delighted him that he could find no use of the word modern in Shakespeare that did not carry its load of contempt.

I Love Jodi anderson and all of her books!

Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.