Quotes About Literature

the way to an intellectual's heart is via her library...

I believe that a biography is more effectual than any other kind of literature in turning the mind into a new channel, and causing it to take an interest in the concerns of others rather than its own. GEORGE HAMILTON-GORDON, 5th EARL of ABERDEEN

Despite all the intellectual activity of the time there was in print no guide to the tongue, no linguistic vade mecum, no single book that Shakespeare or Martin Frobisher, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Izaak Walton, or any of their other learned contemporaries could consult.

Les livres que j'aimais devinrent une Bible où je puisais des conseils et des secours.

Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

For Zaza If there are tears in my eyes tonight, is it because you are no longer alive, or because I am? I should dedicate this story to you, but I know that you no longer exist anywhere, and my writing to you like this is pure literary artifice. In any case, this isn't really your story, only one inspired by us. You were not Andrée; nor was I Sylvie, who speaks in my name.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

Everything that men have written about women should be viewed with suspicion, because they are both judge and party,' wrote Poulain de la Barre,11 a little-known seventeenth-century feminist.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values, and it is impossible for me to examine this conviction with an objective eye.

but there was one book in which I believed I had caught a glimpse of my future self: Little Women, by Louisa M. Alcott.

It was not murder that fulfilled Sade's erotic nature; it was literature.

He made of his sexuality an ethic; he expressed this ethic in works of literature. It is by this deliberate act that Sade attains a real originality.

Toute expérience de perte produit une brisure mais par la grâce de la littérature cette brisure peut se transformer en lien.

Cuando era niña, cuando era adolescente, los libros me salvaron de la desesperación: eso me convenció de que la cultura era el valor más alto.

Existia um livro que eu acreditava ter me feito vislumbrar quem seria no futuro: Mulherzinhas, de Louisa May Alcott

Tant que les livres existeront, mon bonheur sera garanti.

The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.

She knows all about lite'ature except maybe how to read. .

If you want to be a writer, learn to type.

She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement-house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a horde of grateful poor.

Certainly Lewis failed—or refused—to sketch a solution to the threat of fascism. He was a social satirist, not a systematic political thinker or theorist. Worth

Authors have the power to bore people long after we are dead. –

cigar, and walked up and down before the house, a portly

Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota.