Quotes About Literature

We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are.

I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful." "There's a literature about this?" "You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.

Cicero wouldn't approve of my writing style, but at least I pronounce his name with a hard C.

I lasted about an hour before the naming of the Valar drove me to exercise.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

El lector es un crítico con una ocupación importantísima: complacerse a sí mismo.

books also connect us to all others - of our own or previous times - who have read what we've read. In the community of readers, we instantly become linked to those who share our love for specific characters or passages.

Marlowe's mighty line.

And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek.

Call forth thundering Aeschylus.

Reader, look,Not at his picture, but his book.

Sweet Swan of Avon!

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don't have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.

Ningún escritor es libre de renunciar a su momento político, pero la literatura refleja la política, no influye en ella, una distinción importante.

Ernest Hemingway based Robert Jordan, the main character in For Whom the Bell Tolls, partly on Umar Mamsurov.

Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus, often translated as "Even Homer nods.

The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting Tennyson, and the next he would be discussing the best way to blow up a train.

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …

Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission.

fiction. As I grew older I read more widely.

writers sneered at it, without actually taking a stand for or against. The

after Jonas died, in 1970, of a heart attack—occupied herself with reading and painting.

Sleep no more!' I cried. 'Montgomery doth murder sleep.