Quotes About Literature

she'd once read a poem that said the unexpected moment was always sweeter.

Una persona debería leer un libro porque este provoca algo en su corazón.

The one before her was some sort of study, with a wall of books, all leather-bound and smelling like knowledge.

Anything I could get my hands on. Thomas liked to call me a bookworm." "More of a book dragon, I should think." She laughed. "Why would you say that?" "You are far too fierce to be a lowly worm.

Not all new books carry endorsements, and I wouldn't say that blurbs are indispensable for marketing.

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.

It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books.

Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Many bad books have had great influence.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another.

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.