Quotes About Literature

Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.

Atticus killed several birds with one stone when he read to his children, and would probably have caused a child psychologist considerable dismay: he read to Jem and Jean Louise whatever he happened to be reading, and the children grew up possessed of an obscure erudition. They cut their back teeth on military history, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, True Detective Mysteries, The Code of Alabama, the Bible, and Palgrave's Golden Treasury.

I could not remember when the lines above Atticus's moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow—anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.

She glanced with satisfaction at the neat swath behind her. The grass lay crisply cut and smelled like a creek bank. The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.

Bayan Caroline, un çuval?ndan dikilmiÅŸ etek ve kot gömlek giyen bu k?l?ks?z birinci s?n?f öÄŸrencilerinin hayal ürünü edebiyata yabanc? olduklar?n?, çoÄŸunun ilk yürümeye baÅŸlad?klar? günden beri pamuk tarlalar?nda ot temizlediklerini, domuzlara yem verdiklerini bilmiyordu. Öykünün sonuna gelince, Ah, ne güzeldi deÄŸil mi? diye sordu.

Ništa zapravo nije zastrašuju?e osim u knjigama.

Whatcha readin'?" I asked. Atticus turned the book over. "Something of Jem's. Called The Gray Ghost." I was suddenly awake. "Why'd you get that one?" "Honey, I don't know. Just picked it up. One of the few things I haven't read," he said pointedly. "Read

I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home

The novel must tell a story.

I'm Charles Baker Harris, he said, and I can read.

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.

Atticus Finch's a deep reader, a mighty deep reader.

Oh dear me, yes. The novel must tell a story.

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.

Miss Caroline parecía no darse cuenta que los andrajosos alumnos de la primera clase, los cuales habían cortado algodón y cebado puercos desde que supieron andar, eran inmunes a la literatura de imaginación

The only things that she cares about are a comfortable chair, a good reading light, and enough books and magazines.

Kad je gospo?ica Kerolajn stigla do mesta gde Gospa-Ma?ka poziva samoposlugu da naru?i miševe u slatkom ?okoladnom prelivu, razred se ve? vrpoljio kao crvi?i za pecanje u tegli. Izgleda da gospo?ica Kerolajn nije bila svesna toga da su odrpani, u košulje od grubog platna i suknje od džakova za brašno odeveni prvaci, od kojih je ve?ina po?ela brati pamuk i hraniti svinje ?im je prohodala, bili neprijem?ivi za književne maštovitosti.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

According to Chekhov, Tamaru said, rising from his chair, once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired. Meaning what? Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.