Quotes About Literature

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

'Jitterbug Perfume' is one of my favorite books.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

I leave my editor to put the periods and commas in.

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.

The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and Java. Arabic is their sacred language.

Car notre passé, qu'est-il d'autre qu'une suite de rêves ? Quelle différence y a-t-il entre se rappeler les rêves et se rappeler le passé ? Et c'est la fonction que remplit le livre.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Fíjate, cuando uno de los personajes del libro muere de un disparo, un hilo de su sangre recorre todo el pueblo hasta llegar a donde se encuentra la madre del muerto. Todo es así, en el límite de lo sublime o de lo cursi. Como el bolero

El idiota suele ser buen lector, pero generalmente, de malos libros. No lee de izquierda a derecha, como los occidentales, ni de derecha a izquierda, como los orientales. Se las ha arreglado para leer de izquierda a izquierda

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it."

Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

Whereas stories are fit for every place, reach to all persons, serve for all times, teach the living, revive the dead, so far excelling all other books, as it is better to see learning in Noblemen's lives, than to read it in Philosophers' writings.

it is useful, or rather it is necessary, not to be indifferent about acquiring the works of earlier writers, but to make a collection of these, like a set of tools in farming. For the corresponding tool of education is the use of books, and by their means it has come to pass that we are able to study knowledge at its source.