Quotes About Literature

First of all read Céline; the greatest writer of 2,000 years

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

Shakespeare never did this.

Ho bisogno soltanto di una buona notte di sonno. Ma tanto per incominciare, non c'è mai un cazzo di niente da leggere. Quando uno ha avuto una certa dose di buona letteratura, non ce n'è più, punto e basta. Bisogna scriversela da soli.

I agree that complacency hardly engenders an immortal literature but neither does repetition.

A. Huxley died at 69, much too early for such a fierce talent, and I read all his works but actually Point Counter Point did help a bit in carrying me through the factories and the drunk tanks and the unsavory ladies. that book along with Hamsun's Hunger they helped a bit. great books are the ones we need.

Lees je Céline?' vroeg een vrouwenstem. Haar stem klonk tamelijk sexy. Ik had me al een tijd eenzaam gevoeld. Tientallen jaren eigenlijk.[...] 'Nou, aan de slag. Ik wil Frankrijks grootste schrijver. Ik wacht al heel lang.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable for the reader and the writer.

Con la gente, solo encontré a los vivos que ahora estaban muertos; en los libros, en la música clásica.

Bad writers tend to have self-confidence, while the good ones tend to have self-doubt.

I have consumed more drink than the first one hundred men you will pass on the street or meet in the madhouse. I scratch my belly and dream of the albatross. I have joined the great drunks of the centuries: Li Po, Toulouse-Lautrec, Crane, Faulkner. I have been selected but by whom?

Listen, is it true that Celine and Hemingway died on the same day?

So," said Sarah, "those are your readers?" "That's most of them, I think." "Don't any intelligent people read you?" "I hope so.

and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed shot runover de-tailed cat before them and I say, "look, look at this!

Mi ricordo che un giorno ricevetti una lettera furibonda da un tale il quale sosteneva che non avevo diritto di dire che Shakespeare non mi piace. Troppi giovani mi avrebbero creduto senza nemmeno darsi la pena di leggere Shakespeare. Non avevo diritto di affermare una cosa simile. E così via. Non gli ho mai risposto. Lo faccio adesso. Fottiti amico. E non mi piace nemmeno Tolstoj.

I remember when I was a kid I read this book by Hemingway. A guy climbed into bed with this woman again and again and he couldn't do it although he loved the woman and she loved him. My god, I thought, what a great book. All these centuries and nobody has written about this aspect of the thing. I thought the guy was just too blissfully dumb-ass to do it. Later on I read in the book that he'd had his genitals shot off in the war. What a let-down.

?itate Celinea? upotao je ženski glas. Zvu?io je seksi. U zadnje sam vrijeme bio nešto sam. I tako desetlje?ima.

almost anything upsets or insults a movie audience, while people who read novels and short stories love to be upset and insulted.

Poezia spune prea multe într-un timp prea scurt; proza spune prea puÅ£in ÅŸi dureaz? prea mult.

I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovich, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

the world is full of shipping clerks who have read the Harvard Classics

I reached over, opened it in the middle, and began reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Nothing had changed. It was still a lousy book.

ama yine de biliyordum (iki paral?k deliliÄŸime raÄŸmen) ortal?kta muhteÅŸem olarak nitelendirilen çok kötü bir edebiyat?n dolaÅŸt???n?, o Philly çat?s?n?n alt?nda yapabileceÄŸimden çok da iyi olmayan bir edebiyat.

My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain angle, alone, or with Meagan nearby, and now and then, if I'm lucky, I'll come across a lovely phrase or fine sentiment, look up from my book, and feel the harmony of some notion, the justice of it, and know that everything is there. That's life to me, those privately discovered moments.