Quotes About Literature

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

You read a lot?" Galina finally asked. "Yes. It's an escape into another world." She tried to keep her words light instead of sad, thoughts of her family in her head. "Sometimes that is the best part of a hard day.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

But if one is going to create characters, I suggest that one is well-advised not to attach to them the names of real persons, living or dead.

The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

How are you? How is your wonderful bathroom? How are the books you read and the things you think? Your dogs and their lives? The weather? Your feelings?

Fee-fi-fo-fum, now I'm borrowed, now I'm numb.

As you know, both Maxine and I like Saul Bellow. It is even hard to dislike parts of his work that one might in some one else. I like Henderson the most.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

This book will bring little joy to the reader.

Cada vez que prestamos un título, cada vez que preguntamos algo en relación con él, cada vez que decimos "Si te ha gustado ese, seguro que te gustará este" nos transformamos —por arte de magia— en esa sociedad literaria.

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In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hour-glass--all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.

Quand je lis Proust ou Mauriac, je ne crois pas qu'ils évoquent le temps où mon père était enfant. Son cadre à lui c'est le Moyen Âge.

J'allais aux cours de littérature et de sociologie, au restau U, je buvais des cafés midi et soir à la Faluche, le bar réservé aux étudiants. Je n'étais plus dans le même monde. Il y avait les autres filles, avec leurs ventres vides, et moi.

J'ai toujours voulu écrire comme si je devais être absente à la parution du texte. Écrire comme si je devais mourir, qu'il n'y ait plus de juges.