Quotes About Literature

He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Eglow, Eglonitz—here we are, Egria. It

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more.

jacket. It was this sketch-book, which was as dilapidated

You can go anywhere in the whole world you want to go in a book.

I'm not going to rate books--there are too many variables. I'd rather talk about the reading experience.

Grace Paley once described the male-female writer phenomenon to me by saying, "Women have always done men the favor of reading their work, but the men have not returned the favor.

It is my hope to, one day, share my love for HPL with the world.

On the other hand," the doctor continued behind her, "a Fielding novel comparable in length, although hardly in subject matter, would never do for very young children. I even have doubts about Sterne—

I never yet knew anyone who could not fall asleep with Richardson being read aloud to him.

at my age an hour's reading before bedtime is essential

Eleanor—"I plan to stay up and read for a while." "Are you still reading Pamela?" Eleanor asked the doctor. "Volume two. I have three volumes to go, and then I shall begin Clarissa Harlowe, I think. Perhaps Luke would care to borrow—" "No, thanks," Luke said hastily. "I have a suitcase full of mystery stories.

Well look and see what this very same Job has to say, that book which everyone reads, but no one understands

If I get hold of a book and see that the sun shone, the moon floated by, the air was fragrant, the birds tweeted—I fling it across the room.

An utshebe zavadyenye may be out of the question, but there's not a barishnye who wouldn't like to be znakome with Zola, Pushkin, or dazhe Gorky …" So she says to me, my beauty, half in Yiddish and half in Russian, although the Russian was more like two-thirds.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

a mí mismo me causa singular impresión el comprobar que mis historiales clínicos carecen, por decirlo así, del severo sello científico, y presentan más bien un aspecto literario.

Rather than, say, Toni Morrison, who called basing a character on a real person an infringement of copyright. A person owns his life, she says. It's not for another to use it for fiction.

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does more than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. Rebecca West.

Yes, of course, there are also nice people... But we all know niceness is never as interesting to write, or read, about.

Academic joke making the rounds: Professor A: Have you read that book? Professor B: Read it? I haven't even taught it yet.

At times I can barely contain my anger at students. How can you be an English major and not know that you don't put a period after a question mark? Why do even graduate students not know the difference between a novel and a memoir, and why do they keep referring to full-length books as "pieces"?

Only recently had he realized the way books could give a person wings.

literature is but the shadow of good talk

As a society, we rightly adore our great musicians and novelists, yet we seldom hear any mention of the humble mathematician. It is clear that mathematics is not considered part of our culture. Instead, mathematics is generally feared and mathematicians are often mocked.