Quotes About Literature

If you don't like a book, lay it aside. It was not written for you.

The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard. --Disgrace

Von allen Abenteuern ist Selbstmord das literarischste, mehr noch als Mord.

She is no longer sure that people are always improved by what they read. Furthermore, she is not sure that writers who venture into the darker territories of the soul always return unscathed.

we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West's but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.

Entonces quiero hablar filosofía ahora! ¿Qué pasa si no me despierto? ¿Por qué no está permitido que venga aquí don Quijote? –Don Quijote puede cruzar los mares y venir, pero tiene que hacerlo en un libro, como el que lo trajo cuando llegó hasta ti. No puede aparecerse en carne y hueso. En cuanto a no despertarse, si no nos despertamos nunca, entonces… nada, nada, nada. Eso es lo que quiero decir con filosofía.

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.

Kako ?e on pisati ako ne ume da govori? Slova su ogledalo re?i. I kad naizgled pišemo u tišini, naš zapis je slika i prilika govora koji te?e u nama, bilo da je drugima ili nama samima upu?en.

Duly noted. Don't get between you and your books otherwise you're totally approachable.

I would fave preferred the happy man to the unhappy poems he's left us

I know the secrets; I dig Joyce and Proust above Melville and Celine.

Romanlar?mla evlenip, çocuk yerine de k?sa hikayeler edineceÄŸim.

history becomes fiction in the…act of being written down

My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed.

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not publishing's -

In the West he'd spent a third of his time in the poolhall, a third in jail, and a third in the public library. They'd seen him rushing eagerly down the winter streets, bareheaded, carrying books to the poolhall, or climbing trees to get into the attics of buddies where he spent days reading or hiding from the law.

Yass, yass. He said he wants to see the 'babby' spelt with two b's when he can get to Frisco.

Writing down these fantastic inanities actually but yet I felt I had to do it because James Joyce wasnt about to do it now he was dead

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing. Source: Wikipedia

I read all the books for 'Twilight.'

When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.

I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other short stories that I've read have a bit of an ending, a climax, a twist or something like that.

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.