Quotes About Literature

Ma non sa lei che cosa è il "De Officiis"?» chiese improvvisamente a Gigi, e come in un tono di rimprovero. Gigi, ora, tagliuzzava una gomma con la punta del temperino: levò il viso, atteggiandolo a profondo interesse. «Ma è la grande Etica della latinità!» proclamò Frugoni entusiasta, con voce piena, potente.

The greatness of literature lies in its capacity to communicate the experiences and feelings of human beings in all their variety, affording us glimpses of the boundless vastness of humanity.

La descarada investigación de uno mismo, la vocación autobiográfica, es en literatura, con independencia de cuál sea la altura de los resultados, una dimisión frente a una parte considerable del proyecto de interpretación del mundo en que uno se siente existir, en todo caso un repliegue al ángulo más fácil

Yes, I will be a writer and make all of you live again in my words.

This is the greatest responsibility of literature: to find in our struggle that which has a future. Literature is a living and growing thing. We must destroy that which is dying, because it does not die by itself.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

Ninguém quer extraviar um livro. Preferimos perder um anel, um relógio, o chapéu-de-chuva, do que o livro cujas páginas não mais leremos mas que conservam, na sonoridade do seu título, uma antiga e talvez perdida emoção.

I fuck with every book, and if I don't leave a mark, there's no orgasm.

Os livros mudam o destino das pessoas

The books are advancing silently, innocently through my house. There is no way I can stop them.

Membangun perpustakaan adalah mencipta kehidupan.

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

Bücher verändern das Schicksal der Menschen. So mancher hat "Der Tiger von Malaysia" gelesen und ist an einer fernen Universität Dozent für Literatur geworden. "Siddharta" hat Zehntausende Jugendliche zum Hinduismus geführt, Hemingway hat sie zu Sportlern gemacht, Dumas hat das Leben Tausender Frauen auf den Kopf gestellt und nicht wenige sind durch ein Kochbuch vor dem Selbstmord bewahrt worden.

For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.

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.

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

Ireland has the oldest literature in Europe in a native language.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives.