Quotes About Literature

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books...

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

O livro é um pássaro com mais de cem asas para voar.

O livro que espalma a flor nas suas págimas transforma-a em borboleta.

The Hindi novelist Phanishwaranath Renu returned the Padma Shri bestowed upon him by the government of India, the act recalling Tagore's disavowal of his knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

At no other time or place in human history have social conflicts been so richly diverse, so vigorously articulated, so eloquently manifest in art and literature or adressed with such directness by the political system and the media.

and Bengali literature – in sum, 'an awesome polyglot, the

At last I found LOVE in literature, songs, movies except my Life.

A novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

A prose work of some length that has something wrong with it.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

The Name of the Rose and J. M. Synge's Riders to the Sea?

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser. Well, let's talk Algeria then. Let's talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

If you want to write ... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Se llamaba Mónica y era morena. Y tenía su vida, su novio, todas esas cosas que tiene la gente. Y no era, y esto Sebastián querría dejarlo muy claro, una musa ni una maga, ni una bruja ni un recuerdo, ni nada de esas cosas con las que la literatura suprime a menudo a las mujeres.

Ay la ficción que daño hace, y Sebastián debería haberlo sabido, viniendo de un país cuyo héroe más grande lleva un orinal en la cabeza. No leas tanto, le decían de niño, y no hizo caso, y así le ha ido. La ficción puede muy bien instalarse en el alma de un hombre hasta destruirla. Sebastián había visto y admirado a lo largo de su vida, hombres capaces de hacer cosas en el mundo real e incapacitados para la ficción.