Quotes About Literature

Sleep is good," he said. "And books are better.

a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." ? George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

I accept what I am, but I did not choose it. I experience human life in the only way I can, vicariously. I am a voracious consumer of books, tapes, holoplays, fictions and drama and histories of all sorts. I have experimented with dreamdust.

He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one more. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about, he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it.

el maestre amaba los libros tanto como Samwell Tarly. Comprendía cómo se podía sumergir uno en ellos, como si cada página fuera un agujero abierto que daba a otro mundo.

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one... tanveersalt.com

Reading books by candlelight will make you blind.

Yet, if he would not lie, what could he write but truth?

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

We all live our lives, but a reader lives a hundred other lives.

There is no such thing as Negro dialect, except in literature and drama.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

Como nunca antes, el estudiante y la persona interesada por la literatura lee comentarios y críticas de libros más que los propios libros, o antes de esforzarse por formarse un juicio personal.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Researchers believe that the conscious cultivation of empathy, including through the reading of novels (see S. Keen), will make communication far easier and will save us from future world cataclysms. —The Journal of Community and Cortex

I lay in the garden in the shade of the tangerine trees and devoured the book

Secondo me, bisogna trovargli un nuovo istitutore», disse Larry. «Ti allontani da casa cinque minuti, e quando torni, lo trovi che sta sbudellando Moby Dick nel portico.»

The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber What