Quotes About Literature

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

The idea of the book that matters most," Kiki said. "Because i think it's like impossible to pick such a book. When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. Like if you're unhappy and you read, I don't know, On the Road or The Three Musketeers, and that book changes how you fell or how you think, then it matters the most. At that time.

I see you in the library. The way you love the books.

A classroom of students may read the same piece of poetry or the same passage in a novel, and each person may interpret it differently.

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

When in doubt, read books. Educate yourself. Education has always saved me Edward. Learn about the mysteries.

When in doubt, read books," Principal Arundhi says. He speaks quickly, as if worried this might be his last opportunity to share his thoughts. "Educate yourself. Education has always saved me, Edward. Learn about the mysteries.

He had been her person, and they'd passed books back and forth between them her entire life.

Even her romances, forming a class apart from all, which had gone before, and unapproached by imitators, wore a certain air of antiquity, and seemed scarcely to belong to the present age.

Incited by the intellectual recompense of such a pursuit, Mrs. Radcliffe gave her romances in quick succession to the world: — her first work, "The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne," was published in the year 1789; the "Sicilian Romance," in 1790; the "Romance of the Forest," in 1791; "The Mysteries of Udolpho," in 1794; and " The Italian," in 1797.

THE LIFE OF MRS. RADCLIFFE is a pleasing phenomenon in the literature of her time. During a period, in which the spirit of personality has extended its influence, till it has rendered the habits and conversation of authors almost as public as their compositions, she confined herself, with delicate apprehensiveness, to the circle of domestic duties and pleasures.

The Gaston de Blondeville was written in the early ninteenth century, but published posthumously in 1826 by Henry Colburn, three years after Radcliffe's death.

When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

Could Beatrice have written like Dante, or Laura have glorified love's pain? I set the style for women's speech. God help me shut them up again!

Literature is an act which gives meaning to experience.

Symbolism, originally intended as a countermovement to naturalism, actually turned out to be a variation of it rather than its antithesis.

The ideal of musicality belongs to the stylistic layer of Symbolism, for music in literature is a function of language, of style. It is the stylistic element which is the most deeply rooted in the aesthetics and value-hierarchy of the Symbolist movement, and one which graphically illustrates the interrelatedness of ideas and of style, and the possibility of expressing ideas through the medium of art.

So yes, keep the lid on, buy old books, read old books, seriously consider those scrolls and clay tablets.

Every weekday, rain or shine, gunplay or bombs, standoff or riots, I preferred to walk home, reading my latest book. This would be a 19th century book, because I did not like 20th century books, because I did not like the 20th century.

Es gibt keinen Kummer, über den ein Buch nicht hinwegtrösten könnte, sagte der große Dichter. Wir werden sehen.