Quotes About Literature

La mayoría de mis compras de muebles fueron estanterías. La mayoría de mis otras compras fueron libros.

Un libro es una máquina para fabricar sueños. Está hecho para sacarte de este mundo.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream.

Volume 2 will begin with Cervantes and end with the most interesting novel of 2012.

For some of us, there are few terms that induce narcosis quicker than "Christian allegory.

Finally, while I don't want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens's Great Expectations over Kathy Acker's Great Expectations, though I'll take Lauren Fairbanks's Sister Carrie over Dreiser's any day--there's a whole other world of novels out there most people never even hear of, much less read. Let's go see.

I had to keep checking the copyright page to remind myself this novel [Karl Moritz's Anton Reiser ] was published in 1785, not 1985.

So: an epic novel of the Tathagata? Yes, but not a very good one. Kerouac would have done better.

If a third of the stories in the Decameron mock religion, two-thirds celebrate sex.

Sorel's novels deserve to be revived, but Polexander can be left in its watery grave.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

much of the writing of physicists barely reaches the level of prose.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

Alan said he'd known what to expect from de St Jorre from the kick-off, since in his preface this cretin speaks of banned books being burnt in the same way heretics were burnt by religious tyrants. Alan was quick to denounce the cruel inhumanity of liberal fuckwits who wantonly blurred the lines between human life and products of a literary culture that had yet to escape its commodity form.

If I owned a thousand books, thought Shan, I need never leave this house. Everything in the world could be see through the eyes of those who'd written the stories and histories, who'd lived them.

Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fathers but not by explaining in lectures what the author would have said if he had been as bright as the lecturer.

A book is a little thing that is bigger on the inside, and makes the reader bigger inside as well, a Tardis of ink and glue and paper and words.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

And it dawned on me that one way to find out if someone is trustworthy is to read her a passage from one of your favorite books and see how she reacts.

It said that a dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book. I loved that. And I just had to have it.