Quotes About Literature

I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: 'Are you in love? What are you reading?

read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment,

Drama—formalized imitation, enacted upon a stage—is precisely behavior portraying behavior, but distilled ever closer to the essence. Literature takes that transmission one more difficult step, portraying action in the imagination of the writer and the reader, in the complete absence of both real actors and a material stage.

This is the pattern of behaviour continually represented in the sexually explicit literary fantasies that are as popular among women as provocative images of naked women are among men.)

If you study art (and literature and the humanities), you do it so that you can familiarize yourself with the collected wisdom of our civilization. This is a very good idea—a veritable necessity—because people have been working out how to live for a long time. What they have produced is strange but also rich beyond comparison, so why not use it as a guide?

Nietzsche, for all his brilliance, allows himself anger, but does not perhaps sufficiently temper it with judgement. This is where Dostoevsky truly transcends Nietzsche, in my estimation—where Dostoevsky's great literature transcends Nietzsche's mere philosophy.

recomendaba: «Si hay un rifle apoyado en la pared en el primer acto, tiene que dispararse en el segundo. De lo contrario, no pinta nada ahí».

We are dormant adventurers, lovers, leaders, artists, and rebels, but need to discover that we are all those things by seeing the reflection of such patterns in dramatic and literary form.

You can't write a sonnet if you have to look up the spelling of each word as you go.

Por un instante pensó en ir a su laboratorio, pero volvió a su primitiva idea y continuó caminando en dirección a su casa. Un buen libro, de los que yo no se utilizaban, para practicar el viejo arte de la lectura.

Patricia pensó que ni la mejor de las películas podía acercarse mínimamente a la belleza de la novela, ni al personaje descrito por el autor.

João José, o Professor, desde o dia em que furtara um livro de histórias numa estante de uma casa da Barra, se tornara perito nestes furtos. Nunca, porém, vendia os livros, que ia empilhando num canto do trapiche, sob tijolos, para que os ratos não os roessem. Lia-os todos numa ânsia que era quase febre.

y su acento, sin dejar de tener aquella música que le era peculiar, se hacía lento y profundo al pronunciar palabras suavemente articuladas, que en vano probaría yo a recordar hoy: porque no he vuelto a oírlas, porque pronunciadas por otros labios no son las mismas, y escritas en estas páginas aparecerían sin sentido. Pertenecen a otro idioma, del cual hace algunos años no viene a mi memoria ni una frase.