Quotes About Literature

How little this is the state of our country, needs not to be told. The edicts of an English academy would, probably, be read by many, only that they may be sure to disobey them.

ANASTROPHE  (ANA'STROPHE)   n.s.[  a preposterous placing, from    figure whereby words which should have been precedent, are postponed.

The work is performed, first by railing at the stupidity, negligence, ignorance, and asinine tastelessness of the former editors

Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.

APOCOPE  (APO'COPE)   n.s.[  figure in grammar,when the last letter or syllable of a word is taken away; as, ingeni for ingenii.

I consider the English alphabet only as it is English;

And yet all I have said is but  from common reading. And, let me ask, why, because we know but little, we are to be supposed to know nothing?

A man may be accomplished in art, literature, and science, and yet, in honesty, virtue, truthfulness, and the spirit of duty, be entitled to take rank after many a poor and illiterate peasant.

Žmog? visada galima pažinti iš jo skaitom? knyg?.

Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Willing Suspension of Disbelief

What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

Ah,temos um mas. Você devia ter sido critica literaria. Eles atiram-nos flores e depois dão-nos um pontapé nos tomates. pag.130

Sandra Brown

I agree. Each book is like a little world. You can carry it in your hand, and, yet, the space it creates in your mind is infinite.

find the experience of diving into a new world the most exhilarating of sensations," he said. "I agree. Each book is like a little world. You can carry it in your hand, and, yet, the space it creates in your mind is infinite." He

I read a lot. I read everything. Novels, hundreds of novels. You learn a lot about human nature through literature.

Culta? Perdone que le diga, Víctor, pero es la primera persona que conozco que no ha sido capaz de leerse completo el diario de Ana Frank.

Ce qui est utile à la littérature l'est souvent peu à la vie.

Lo común es que la literatura provenga del lado de las víctimas, pues el escritor, agazapado, se siente más cómodo donde caen las bombas que al lado de los cañones

I came home poorer by several hundred dollars and richer by more books than I could carry.