Quotes About Literature

It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about... and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.

A sentence is a set of words expressing themselves. A book is a set of words put together to change your consciousness."

I write because I love to play with language.

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

Read The Story of O . Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry,The subject of it is War, and the pity of War.The Poetry is in the pity.All a poet can do is warn.

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Erst durch Lesen lernt man, wie viel man ungelesen lassen kann.

In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose.

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

The Reader's Bill of Rights: The right to not read… to skip pages… to not finish… to reread… to read anything… to escapism… to read anywhere… to browse… to read out loud… to not defend your tastes.

Que des livres puissent à ce point bouleverser notre conscience et laisser le monde aller au pire, voilà de quoi rester muet.

Que unos libros puedan alterar hasta tal punto nuestra conciencia y dejar que el mundo siga de mal en peor, es algo que deja sin palabras.

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

Rather than allowing a book's intelligence to speak through our mouths, we replace it with our own intelligence as we talk about it. Rather than acting as emissary for the book, we become guardians of the temple, boasting of its wonders in the very words that slam shut it's doors: Reading matters! Reading matters!

3. El derecho a no terminar un libro ¿El libro se nos cae de las manos? Que se caiga. La gran novela que se nos recite no es necesariamente más difícil que otra. No hay química. Pero ¿Cómo es posible que no le guste Stendhal? Es posible.

Un libro ben scelto ti salva da qualsiasi cosa, persino da te stesso.

Parce que le mot à leurs yeux ne devient vraiment gros que lorsqu'on l'écrit, on s'en "branle" à l'oral, on s'en "bat les couilles à longueur de journée, on "nique ta mère" à tire larigot. Mais trouver le mot "couille" ou le verbe "branler" et "niquer" noir sur blanc, dans un livre, quand leur place est sur les murs des toilettes, alors ça...

Non sapevo, leggendoli, che mi istruivo, che quei libri avrebbero risvegliato in me una fame che sarebbe sopravvissuta persino al loro oblio.

Il verbo leggere non sopporta l'imperativo.

Parlare di un'opera a degli adolescenti, e pretendere da loro che ne parlino può rivelarsi molto utile, ma non è un fine in sé. Il fine è l'opera. L'opera nelle loro mani. E il primo dei loro diritti, in materia di lettura, è il diritto di tacere.