Quotes About Literature

Stii de ce nu pot sfarsi nici o carte? Pentru ca toate eroinele seamana cu tine, si n-am curajul sa te descriu, sa fac literatura din dragostea asta...

În literatur?, oamenii elementari, cu pasiuni puternice, dominaÈ›i de un singur viciu sau oarecum maniaci, par vii È™i autentici. CeilalÈ›i, mai ales oamenii buni, blânzi, inteligenÈ›i È™i, în primul rând, oamenii preocupaÈ›i de probleme morale, par fazi, f?r? contur, lipsiÈ›i de personalitate. În fond, literar vorbind, sunt neinteresanÈ›i.

Once he could read, all knowledge was within reach.

Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help. Textbooks, those whores, as particularly explicit in acknowledging this, and it is with a textbook that you, at this moment, after several years in the city, are walking down the street.

It's more of a novella than a novel. It leaves space for your thoughts to echo.

How odd it would be to call Homer's Iliad or Rumi's Masnavi "the Great Eastern Mediterranean Poem.

All books are investments (p.134)

Why don't you read a novel? There's more truth in fiction than in fact.

All is a-swarm with commentaries; of authors there is a dearth.

Don't do it. Please. I know this book looks delicious with its light-weight pages sliced thin a prosciutto and swiss stacked in a way that would make Dagwood salivate. The scent of freshly baked words wafting up with every turn of the page. Mmmm page. But don't do it. Not yet. Don't eat this book.

Books are absent teachers.

To use a good book as a sedative is conspicuous waste.

When we speak of someone as "well-read," we should have this ideal in mind. Too often, we use that phrase to mean the quantity rather than the quality of reading. A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised. As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

The first dictionaries were glossaries of Homeric words, intended to help Romans read the Iliad and Odyssey as well as other Greek literature employing the 'archaic' Homeric vocabulary.

We are tied down, all our days and for the greater part of our days, to the commonplace. That is where contact with the great thinkers, great literature helps. In their company we are still in the ordinary world, but it is the ordinary world transfigured and seen through the eyes of wisdom and genius. And some of their genius becomes ours. . . in The Great Conversation

As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.

In tackling a difficult book for the first time, read it through without ever stopping to look up or ponder the things you do not understand right away.

a arte de ler é a técnica de apanhar qualquer tipo de comunicação.

Every book, no matter how difficult, contains interstitial material that can be and should be read quickly; and every good book also contains matter that is difficult and should be read very slowly.

Os gregos tinham um nome especial nome especial para essa estranha mistura de aprendizado e estupidez - um nome que pode ser aplicado aos literatos ignorantes de todas as eras. Eles chamavam esse fenômeno de sofomania.

4. If the book is a new one with a dust jacket, READ THE PUBLISHER'S BLURB.

There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well.