Quotes About Literature

Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

She should have read the damned play. She should have spent hours reading Shakespeare. The duke was making literature sound a lot more interesting than her governess had ever done.

Bucknell joined their family, editing her

The enormous energy which characterized the Viking Age and which had sent waves of people across many parts of Europe had now dwindled, but the deeds of the Viking Age inspired Scandinavian literature, history and politics, and enhanced national pride and identity.

After a while, the only presents I wanted were records and books.

La vida cosida por un hilo invisible que entrelaza relaciones caprichosas, pero posibles, no forzadas por las fantasías, a las que tan aficionados son los literatos, sino basadas en coincidencias reales.

Hablo de libros siempre, todos los días, en la comida, por correo, por teléfono, por skype, por chat, por facebook.

Los libros que de verdad me gustan son esos que cuando acabas de leerlos piensas que ojalá el autor fuera muy amigo tuyo para poder llamarle por teléfono cuando quisieras»

I went ahead and read all of George Bernard Shaw's plays for my own pleasure, because I liked the cut of his beard.

The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

Bach, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Dostoievski ÅŸi Nietzsche sunt singurul argument împotriva monoteismului.

Um livro deve mexer nas feridas, aliás, deve alargá-las. Um livro deve ser um perigo.

To dissect a poem as if it were a system is a crime, even a sacrilege.

Talentul" e mijlocul cel mai sigur de a denatura totul, de a sluÅ£i înf??iÅŸarea lucrurilor ÅŸi de a te înÅŸela în privinÅ£a propriei tale persoane. ExistenÅ£a adev?rat? e apanajul acelora pe care natura nu i-a copleÅŸit cu vreo înzestrare. De aceea, e greu de conceput un univers mai fals decît cel literar ÅŸi un om mai lipsit de adev?r decît literatul. (Silogismele amaraciunii)

Cea mai mare întâlnire din viaÅ£a mea: Bach. Dup? el, Dostoievski; apoi scepticii greci, apoi Buddha... pe urm?, dar ce mai conteaz? ce vine pe urm?...

Când cineva nu are nimic de spus, devine critic literar, iar când are ÅŸi mai puÅ£in de spus, devine critic al criticilor - sterilitate la p?trat.

El talento es el medio más seguro de falsearlo todo, de deformar las cosas y de equivocarse acerca de uno mismo. Sólo poseen una existencia verdadera aquellos a quienes la naturaleza no ha abrumado con ningún don. Sería por ello difícil de imaginar un universo más falso que el universo literario, o un hombre más desprovisto de realidad que el hombre de letras.

FuncÅ£ia Cuvîntului în cosmogonii. Dumnezeu vorbeÅŸte iar lucrurile se fac. Este o viziune literar? a universului, pe care numai omul o putea concepe. Ne-ar pl?cea s? cunoaÅŸtem divagaÅ£iile cosmogonice ale unei creaturi mute.

Le romantisme anglais fut un mélange heureux de laudanum, d'exil et de phtisie; le romantisme allemand, d'alcool, de province et de suicide.

In any book governed by the Fragment, truths and whims keep company throughout.

Whenever philosophers insinuate themselves into Letters, it is to exploit their confusion or to precipitate their collapse.

Un livre est un suicide différé.

It is a misfortune for an author to be understood.