Quotes About Literature

La nature sud-américaine a fabriqué, elle fabrique encore des hommes admirables, pauvres, dur à la peine: le gaucho de la pampa, le caboclo brésilien, le paysan mexicain, le peón (peão). (...) Le misérable isolé du monde par la nature, l'espace, ou sa seule misère, reste toujours le héros littéraire par excellence.

Os livros ou, dizia o pai com sulcos de muito matutar na testa, os cabrões dos livros. O rapaz tinha contraído a febre de ler.

La desesperanza y la soledad no se comparten en la literatura con una multitud de otros seres, porque no existe, no existirá, el personaje masivo

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

La ciencia describe y explica la realidad, pero la literatura expresa lo que supone para nosotros formar parte de esa realidad. A

I think it is highly likely that – with some differences – everything has already been written. But the fact is that, in literature, the what doesn't matter: what matters is how. Originality in literature does exist, and we can find it – basically and maybe exclusively – in how we write, not what we write about.

I have often received messages from diverse readers that, with some variations, pose similar questions. For example: 'What did you want to symbolize with: a) the man that hits another man on his head with an umbrella? b) the mosquito that dominates the man? c) the fifty chastising lambs?' In all cases my answers, in these words or words like these, are; When I write a story I try to make it the best possible story in a literary sense: I just want to write a story.

The history of Argentinian literature should be divided into two periods: before Borges (before 1941) and after Borges (after 1941).

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

The last time I read piles of erotica by choice, I was fourteen. At that stage, having no experience with men beyond snogging, I took it all as gospel. Now, after I've lived a little, I read the same works again and think, 'Has this author ever really had sex?

Please read this [book] so I'll have someone to talk about it with? I'll get you cigarettes.

Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.

only bookworms get excited over other bookworms

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

Is it about a bicycle?

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

La vida para mí se hacía demasiado larga. La literatura, por sí sola, no me distraía.

There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading or dreaming. One corner, overhung by a Samson tree and walled in with bushes and flowers, she called her 'green study'.

No book's too old for anybody who is able to enjoy it, and none too young, either, for that matter. Let her read what she likes.