Quotes About Literature

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and wilfully bizarre. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it.

Sometimes in life, and commonly in literature, desire undermines our resolve, drives us to obsession, illness, madness, or even death; or splits us into self-division, or contradictory moral evaluation, or wrecks us with the ambivalence of love and hate fused in the same desire.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

I believe that one can never be an elegant man without a taste for reading.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

Régis Jauffret got it right when he said that he was disgusted by writers who think of their readers.

Reading is about enjoying yourself and learning about the human experience, so go for it.

The closet encouraged reading.

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

He was correct in saying that his academic shortcomings could be proven by the flavor of his writing. Latin experts point out errors and infelicities throughout Patrick's writings, and even in translation there are places where it is clear that Patrick's writing is a little clumsy.

Or, to take the analogy imagined by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger in Jews and Words, the reader today who consumes "Tolstoy and Toni Morrison with his morning coffee while skimming two news sites on his electronic device and perusing the small print on his breakfast cereal package.

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.

But she has little experience of helpless-looking boys.

Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book [A Tale of a Tub].

Books, the children of the brain.

I have a huge passion for literature.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.

Kissing Hugh was lovely. Glad I invented it. Can't rely on Austen for a snog, that's for sure.