Quotes About Literature

We're committed to the idea that a book has to live in the present . . . but the reality, that's hard for us to recognise, is that a book has to live in the future.

Papi was a voracious reader, couldn't even go cheating without a paperback in his pocket.

What is clear is that being a reader/fanboy (for lack of a better term) helped him get through the rough days of his youth, but it also made him stick out in the mean streets of Paterson even more than he already did.

The only thing that came close was how he felt about his books; only the combined love he had for everything he'd read and everything he hoped to write came even close.

He read The Lord of the Rings for what I'm estimating the millionth time, one of his greatest loves and greatest comforts since he'd first discovered it, back when he was nine and lost and lonely and his favorite librarian had said, Here, try this, and with one suggestion changed his life. Got through almost the whole trilogy, but then the line "and out of Far Harad black men like half-trolls" and he had to stop, his head and heart hurting too much.

From what I saw the plurality of students and faculty had been educated exclusively in the tradition of writers like William Gaddis...

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'. "To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is English," Peter said. "It's taken me most of today to get through a page.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

Said books were more interesting than people.

How wonderful, to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, borne away on words. And

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

And yes, I confess, when I looked at him, I thought of Heathcliff and Mr Rochester and Maxim de Winter... and how could I not, when I had been waiting for them to step out of the pages of the books I loved; when I knew them so well, read them inside out and into myself?

As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that reveal immutable truths.

People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries....But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves, lost and forgotten, waiting, waiting, until someone like me comes along, and wants to borrow them.

It is hard not to write satire.

La sección más importante de mi casa es la biblioteca, donde guardo verdaderos tesoros.

la hora donde el lector se enamora del autor y de los personajes de sus libros y donde el redactor de versos imagina que está hablando con algún dios o que está escribiendo para lectores poseídos por el demonio cruel de la poesía. En

El libro de ensayos sobre la narrativa de Juan García Ponce que venía escribiendo hacía casi un año

Se le ocurrió que si la escritura no se hacía de esa manera, en un estado de embriaguez física o espiritual, entonces no valía la pena de ser ejecutada (y la palabra misma le hizo sonreír). Sabía que lo que estaba haciendo jamás podría llegar a ser considerado como una novela por un editor o por un agente literario.

Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition.

Ah". Tzimisces smiled. "Let me guess. Flowery periphrases, back-to-back literary allusions and quotations from thousand-year-old authors. A marked reluctance to use one word when twelve can be jammed in if you sit on the lid.

Gignomai took a book off the top of the pile, glanced at the spine (Caecilius on Prosody) and opened it. It began with a beautiful illuminated letter B and went downhill from there.

Los persas no necesitan haber vivido el amor en sus propias carnes. En sus cuentos y mitos, incluso en el libro sagrado, el amor está por todas partes.