Quotes About Literature

like literary fiction, mathematical imagination entertains pure possibilities.

I said, "There's ditches his size, too.

I am still, relentlessly, reading Agee, and Flannery, too. Two of the writers who fired me to write post–Marine Corps, when I needed it, were Mr. McGuane and Mr. Harrison, and their books are always nearby, well thumbed. And Kawabata and James Salter, both of whom floor me.

James Agee and Flannery O'Connor have impacted on me hardest

Woodrell is the least-known major writer in the country right now." —Dennis Lehane, USA Today

I studied literature design and fashion design.

Nabokov changed my life," Max said. "I was going to be a writer, and then I read Lolita and I decided to go to law school instead. It looked easier.

Istoriju pišu pobednici. Predanja ispreda puk. Književnici fantaziraju. Izvesna je samo smrt.

the reading of many books brings wisdom, and the reading of one brings ignorance armed with rage and hatred.

Y no permita que la literatura, en su caso, sustituya al amor. La literatura también es peligrosa. La vida no se puede reemplazar con nada.

pois uma grande quantidade de livros nunca é perigosa, enquanto um só livro sim, é perigoso; disse-lhes que não os rasgassem porque a leitura de uma grande quantidade de livros conduz à sabedoria, e a leitura de um único à ignorância armada de loucura e ódio.

Galeotto was the book and he that wrote it; that day we read in it no farther.

Un bon livre se retrouve toujours entre les mains d'un lecteur libre. Sinon il n'y reste pas longtemps, le mauvais lecteur cherche à se débarrasser de tout ce qui ne ressemble pas à ce qu'il a déjà lu. Lire n'est pas nécessaire pour le corps (cela peut même se révéler nocif), seul l'oxygène l'est. Mais un bon livre oxygène l'esprit.

C'est le destin de tout écrivain que d'être un traitre.

Mais le plus beau voyage dans le temps que je connaisse c'est celui que procure la lecture. On vous croit dans cette pièce alors que vous vagabondez dans d'autres siècles. Et cela sans faire le moindre bruit.

La littérature, comme le crime organisé, a son réseau.

I remember when I left Hungary," Zoltan said, "understanding so completely that literature could save me as much as it could get me killed. Of course it's not like that here. But isn't it funny, that in some ways the price one pays for freedom of speech is ... a kind of indifference.

That there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

BIBLIOHOLIC

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

What does an educated owl say?" He shrugged. "Whom," she said.

Real readers re-read good books.

Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn't see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you in the old, throbbing way." "How I got over