Quotes About Literature

What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.

It's the writing that teaches you.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

He de decir, si usted no lo sabe por propia experiencia, que leer un buen libro, embebido en el interés de sus palabras y pensamientos, produce en algunas personas (en mí, por ejemplo) una increíble sensación de felicidad.

Yok olmaktan kurtulanlar?n pek az?n? teÅŸkil eden bu edebiyat, beni kendisine a??k etti. Bizim d??a dönük dünyam?z?n tam aksine bu eserlerde içe dönük bir ÅŸeyler var.

January 1950, Doubleday published my first book, the science-fiction novel Pebble in the Sky, and I was hard at work on a second novel.

multitud de ineptos literarios salen adelante por la inseguridad intelectual de sus lectores; y montones de plumíferos escriben grandes fárragos de mala -poesía- y viven de ello.

Los robots eran máquinas y no metáforas.

nunca llegué a escribir un ensayo serio sobre robótica.

I thought you could feel love for me. I don't say you loved me, but it seemed to me you could. I never had that and, although in ancient literature they talked of it, I didn't know what they meant any more than when men in those same books talked about 'honor' and killed each other for its sake.

literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself

Es imposible escribir la verdadera historia de la vida de una persona. Supera el poder de la literatura. El relato completo de cualquier vida sería absolutamente aburrido además de absolutamente increíble.

He had shown me letters he had received not only from Kafka but from Jakob Wassermann, Stefan Zweig, Romain Rolland, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Martin Buber.

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon with Frank Sinatra. The problem with fiction is that it must seem credible, while reality seldom is.

The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings, smooth to the touch, with their gold titles and translucent gilt-edged pages and delicate typography.

Fue lectora voraz desde muy corta edad, con los peligros que esa costumbre conlleva.

No, literature was definitely not a reasonable career path in a country like Chile where intellectual scorn for women was absolute.

Destinul unei carti incepe atunci cand ea este citita nu cand este scrisa! -

Se podía obtener la inmortalidad escribiendo un libro.

Writers were mature men, solemn, remote, and usually dead.

pero su tío Jaime opinaba que la gente no lee lo que no le interesa, y si le interesa es que ya tiene madurez para hacerlo.

Blanca argued that her reading should be monitored because there were certain things that were inappropriate for her age, but her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

La biblioteca está habitada por espíritus que salen de las páginas en las noches.