Quotes About Literature

Sin embargo, y a pesar de ello, los escritores nos empeñamos en poner #Palabras en la nada

La literatura nos hace formar parte del todo y, en el todo, el dolor individual parece que duele un poco menos.

Por primera vez en la historia de la Humanidad hay tantas autoras como autores; por primera vez nuestra voz es tan pública como la de ellos

La novela es el único territorio literario en el que reina la misma imprecisión y desmesura que en la existencia humana. Es un género sucio, híbrido, alborotado. Escribir novelas es un oficio que carece de glamour; somos los obreros de la literatura y tenemos que colocar ladrillo tras ladrillo, mancharnos las manos y baldarnos la espalda del esfuerzo para levantar una humilde pared de palabras que a lo peor luego se nos derrumba.

Siempre me ha dado pena la gente que no lee, y no ya porque sean más incultos, que sin duda lo son; o porque estén más indefensos y sean menos libres, que también, sino, sobre todo, porque viven menos.

Since women are not inferior, they had to be bombarded with a massive literature of religious, social, biological and, more recently, psychological ideology to explain, insist, that women are secondary to men. And to make women believe that they are inferior what better subject for this literature of religious teaching, cautionary folk tales, jokes and customs, than the female body?

The publication arc of the Leatherstocking Tales parallels the Jackson presidency. For those who consumed the books in that period and throughout the nineteenth century—generations of young white men—the novels became perceived fact, not fiction, and the basis for the coalescence of US American nationalism.

My rabies fear started with To Kill a Mockingbird, the same way my appendicitis fear started with Madeline, and my brain tumor fear started with Death Be Not Proud. On an ideal planet, children's books wouldn't be censored for references to sex, but for illness.

I am trying to add a book -that i am reading now. In spanisch- Schiller o la invención del idealismo alemán Best regards Jorge

Lend me thy coat, Shere Khan. Lend me thy gay striped coat that I may go to the Council Rock.

If we confine our attention entirely to the slang of the day - that is to say, if we devote ourselves exclusively to modern literature - we get to think the world is progressing when it is only repeating itself...It is only when one reads what men wrote long ago that one realizes how absolutely modern the best of the old things are.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

Books will always have the last word, even if nobody is around to read them.

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.

Pro captu lectoris) habent sua fata libelli. (According to the capabilities of the reader) books have their own destinies. —Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library

According to the capabilities of the reader, books have their own destinies.

borrow them with no intention of returning them. But, Benjamin says, "Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

Waited for the Library to settle into the deep, dark silence of slumbering books, and words tucked in between their covers for the night.

Bah. Of course he does! He is a schoolboy! He must learn to read Latin, recite Shakespeare, and drink vodka!

I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds—which moves me to tears

He would have to get used to it, she thought. He would have to get used to her being more and more preoccupied with books.

Only novels! Only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language!

Every day I practice yoga, read poetry, and translate. What do I need politics for?