Quotes About Literature

Later on, when you are older, you won't enjoy anything., then you'll say: 'I read that in books twenty years ago.

Es que la gente corriente no sabe lo que significa un libro para un escondido.

She's also the one who brings five library books with her every Saturday. We long for Saturdays because that means books. We're like a bunch of little kids with a present. Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the radio.

For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later neither I, nor anyone else, will care for the outpouring of a thirteen year old schoolgirl.

Anyway, the same words can be found in both books, which makes sense because they're written by the same author.

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise, they might think I was strange.

And they say an addiction to novels is bad for you.

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into ...

Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.

Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

She said that sometimes she uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.

You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored.

I read more than other kids; I luxuriated in books. Books were my refuge.

However, in the meantime, we are going to concentrate on writing itself, on how to become a better writer, because, for one thing, becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul

all of the great writers drank, except for Kafka and Nietzsche, neither of whom you exactly wanted to be when you grew up.

she uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.

Faulkner describes in Light in August as "a prone and somnolent yellow cat

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was a house to me if it did not possess a library?

It's hard to imagine Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Interview with the Vampire.