Quotes About Literature

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea.

Katkad kažemo ubi?u se, a potom nastavimo da ?itamo knjigu.

Jag har en känsla av att lidandet inte kommer att upphöra förrän det finns i en bok... först då kommer det att vara slut. Först då kommer det att vara utplånat. Jag upptäcker det med den här historien som jag har med er: att skriva, det är antagligen, det också, att utplåna. Ersätta.

MôÌ£t cu?n sách m? ra, Ä'ó c?ng laÌ€ Ä'êm t?i...

That people kill themselves because of my books won't stop me from writing. If people turned into reactionaries, political assholes after reading me, yes, that would stop me from writing, but not if they killed themselves.

Má»™t cu?n sách m? ra, Ä'ó cÅ©ng là Ä'êm t?i...

Caminhais em direcção da solidão. Eu, não, eu tenho os livros

Bücher liegen in der Luft. Der Schriftsteller ist nur die Brücke zwischen dem Stoff und der Niederschrift.

Men cannot stand a woman who writes. That's a cruel thing for men. It's hard for all of them.

Mucho me costaría vivir en un mundo sin libros pero la realidad no está en ellos, puesto que no cabe entera.

Il vero luogo natio è quello dove per la prima volta si è posato uno sguardo consapevole su se stessi: la mia prima patria sono stati i libri.