Quotes About Literature

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter ' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don't even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that's wrong.

Just to show them that I wasn't a lot of hot air I'd say names to them – like "Bellow" and "Malamud" and "Albee" – you know, so they'd begin to trust me.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

L'accent circonflexe est l'hirondelle de l'écriture.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of future happiness.

Quand je pense à tous les livres qu'il me reste à lire, j'ai la certitude d'être encore heureux .

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Kathrin dachte, dass es manchmal schöner war, der Stimme eines fremden Schriftstellers zu lauschen, als einen real existierenden im Haus zu haben. Nach dem Abendessen würde Wolfi seinen Krieg gegen sich selbst endlich an den Schreibtisch verlegen, und Kathrin könte sich mit einem Buch in ihren Sessel setzen und die Arbeit eines Autors genießen, von dessen Krisen sie nichts wissen musste.

It has been conservatively estimated that Victoria wrote an average of two and a half thousand words per day during her reign, a total of approximately sixty million words.

on June 20, 1837, the destiny of a nation wheeled, spun, and came to rest on the small frame of an eighteen-year-old girl. A girl who read Charles Dickens, worried about the welfare of Gypsies, adored animals, loved to sing opera, was fascinated with lion tamers, and hated insects and turtle soup; a girl who was bullied by those closest to her until her determination set like concrete; a girl whose heart was wound tight with cords of sentiment and stoicism.

No concebía oficio más hermoso que el de sumergirse en los mares que forman las palabras.

esta hermosa ciudad. Abgaro estaba impaciente.

A verdade deve salvar-se através dos escritos.

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly. "Where would Romeo and Juliet be?" "Alive.

Forget Romeo and Juliet. This was much closer to The Taming of the Shrew.