Quotes About Literature

For me those enchanted pages will always be the ones I found among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

Novels, as everyone knew, were for women and for people who had nothing better to do.

Certa ocasião ouvi um cliente habitual da livraria de meu pai comentar que poucas coisas marcam tanto um leitor como o primeiro livro que realmente abre caminho ao seu coração. As primeiras imagens, o eco dessas palavras que pensamos ter deixado para trás, nos acompanham por toda a vida e esculpem um palácio em nossa memória [...] ao qual iremos retornar.

Cómo puedo agradecérselo? - Viniendo por aquí y leyendo buenos libros, los que a usted le apetezcan, no los que yo o nadie más le diga que tiene que leer.

There are no modest books, only arrogant ignorance.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. This

There I learned that one can forget almost everything in life, beginning with bad smells, and that if there was one thing I aspired to, it was not to die in a place like that. In the low hours—which were most hours—I told myself that if anything was going to get me out of there before an outbreak of tuberculosis did the job, it was literature, and if that pricked anyone's soul, or their balls, they could scratch them with a brick.

Everyday I became more convinced that good literature has little or nothing to do with trivial fancies such as "inspiration" or "having something to tell" and more with the engineering of language, with the architecture of narrative , with the painting of texture, with the timrbres and colors of the staging. With the cinematography of words, and the music that can be produced by an orchestra of ideas

Ogni libro possiede un'anima, l'anima di chi lo ha scritto e di coloro che lo hanno letto, di chi ha vissuto e di chi ha sognato grazie ad esso.

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered, while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.

pocas cosas marcan tanto a un lector como el primer libro que realmente se abre camino hasta su corazón. Aquellas primeras imágenes, el eco de esas palabras que creemos haber dejado atrás, nos acompañan toda la vida y esculpen un palacio en nuestra memoria al que, tarde o temprano - no importa cuántos libros leamos, cuántos mundos descubramos, cuánto aprendamos u olvidemos -, vamos a regresar.

En particular, me interesa saber si ha mencionado alguna vez un cementerio de los libros olvidados o muertos, o algo así. Piénsalo bien antes de contestar. ¿Te ha hablado Martín de ese lugar alguna vez?

Victor Hugo's pen

When a library disappears, or a bookshop closes down, when a book is consigned to oblivion, those of us who know this place, its guardians, make sure that it gets here.

Cada livro, cada volume que vês, tem uma alma. A alma de quem o escreveu, e as almas daqueles que o leram e viveram e sonharam com ele. Cada vez que um livro muda de mãos, cada vez que alguém passa o olhar pelas suas páginas, o seu espírito cresce e torna-se mais forte.

Indem Sie herkommen und gute Bücher lesen, die, die Ihnen gefallen, nicht die, von denen ich oder sonst jemand sagt, Sie sollen sie lesen - ich mag zwar affektiert sein, aber ein Pedant bin ich nicht.

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons? No. They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

Cada libro tiene una alma, el alma de quien lo escribió y el de quienes lo han leído y soñado con él.

We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which first took firm root in Athenian soil.

I wish they'd make a law that all reissued books had to have a little sticker on the front cover so us readers wouldn't buy something we've already got.

I never touch nothing with writing on it.

How I long to feel the weight of a book in my hand. How I long to turn a page, and pass through the print as you'd pass through a door, into that world of wise and lofty spirits, of strange animals, of noble deeds and faraway cities. If only I could crawl into a book and stay there for the rest of my life.

You want weapons? We're in a library. Books! Best weapons in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have.' THE DOCTOR, TOOTH AND CLAW