Quotes About Literature

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves...

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

Let me counsel you to remember that a lady, whether so called from birth or only from fortune, should never degrade herself by being put on a level with writers, and such sort of people.

Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.

Read Until You Understand is structured around specific concepts, themes, and ideals. These have been chosen from a myriad of possibilities because they most consistently emerge in literature written by Black American authors. They also have the potential to transcend the differences that divide us. All people feel despair, long for love, create beauty, and face death.

Oddly, Leon Stover, in Robert A. Heinlein, one of the best close readers in other ways, comes away with the idea that Heinlein 'defends the traditional ethics of Christian civilisation' (p. 61) which is a hard argument to make given the amount of out-of-wedlock sex in his work and the satirisation of so much Christian practice in Stranger in a Strange Land and Job.

Research says that 80 per cent of all submitted manuscripts are rejected, and I have no reason to doubt it. But ask yourself exactly what category (or categories) yours may have fallen into – what pigeonhole.

You must read, Alice, before it's too late. You must fill your mind with the invented images of the past: the more the better.

Writers create Houses of the Imagination, from whose doors the generations greet each other.

Lo que quiero deciros con esto, Señorías, es que, enloquecido por la lectura, no dudará el hombre en dar el salto y convertirse de simple lector en pretencioso escritor.

Si yo tuviera hambre, no pediría un pan. Pediría medio pan y un libro.

Nadie se da cuenta al tener un libro en las manos, el esfuerzo, el dolor, la vigilia, la sangre que ha costado. El libro es, sin disputa, la obra mayor de la humanidad. — Dime qué lees y te diré quién eres

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

Empezaría a pensar que me enorgullecería más, si descubrir una verdad o hacer una cosa bella; yo me quedaría con las dos cosas, como si me pusiera dos trajes: un día uno de profesor de psicología y otro de literato.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism

This is the magic of the word in print: not that it answers questions but that it composes an ongoing score for life, a mute chorus of voices as alive and evolving as light.

Un des signes les plus sûrs des pays que touche vraiment l'unité de la civilisation musulmane reste la langue. Cette langue qui fut autrefois le ciment de l'Islam, l'arabe 'littéral', le XXème siècle l'a préservée; elle est la langue écrite commune, celle qu'emploient les journaux, les livres. Les langues nationales ne sont que des langues parlées.