Quotes About Literature

Çok önemi var, çünkü biz burada, kitaplar aras?nda, kitaplarla birlikte, kitaplara göre yaÅŸayan insanlar aras?nda ne olduÄŸunu anlamaya çal???yoruz; bu nedenle onlar?n kitaplar üstüne söyledikleri sözler de önemlidir.

What's the book about? I must admit I haven't read it. It's over five hundred pages long, which is a mistake — any defamatory work ought to be readable in half an hour. =

I understood it this evening: the author has to die in order for the reader to become aware of his truth.

You are not Proust. Do not write long sentences. If they come into your head, write them, but then break them down. Do not be afraid to repeat the subject twice, and stay away from too many pronouns and subordinate clauses.

i saggi critici vengono letti e giudicati da altri critici e raramente dall'artista analizzato, che o non è abbonato alla rivista o è già morto da due secoli.

De ideale functie van een bibliotheek is om een beetje te lijken op de kraam van een bouquiniste, de ideale plek voor trouvailles.

I libri si rispettano usandoli, non lasciandoli stare.

Nel suo genere x'è un dio. X'è il genere che x'è merda.

Cartea este o asigurare de viata, un mic avans de nemurire.

Good libraries hold several millions of books: even if we read a book a day, we would read only 365 a year, around 3,600 in ten years, and between the ages of ten and eighty we'll have read only 25,200. A trifle.

A thesis studies an object by making use of specific instruments. Often the object is a book and the instruments are other books.

Yazar, yazd?ktan sonra ölmelidir. Metnin gidiÅŸini bozmamak için.

It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

You should read some Feuerbach

Ksi??ka to ubezpieczenie na ?ycie, male?ka antycypacja nie?miertelno?ci.

Literature says something and, at the same time, it denies what it has said; it doesn't destroy signs, it make them play and it plays them. If and whether literature is liberation from the power of the given language depends on the nature of this power.

La letteratura, contribuendo a formare la lingua, crea identità e comunità.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of their history, like an ancestral portrait.

Lampedusa, Bassani y Cassola. Por mi parte, hoy

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

Wenn ein Buch euch gehört und keinen antiquarischen Wert hat, dann unterstreicht es ruhig. Glaubt denen nicht, die behaupten, man müsse die Bücher respektieren. Bücher respektiert man dadurch, daß man sie benutzt, nicht dadurch, daß man sie nicht anrührt. Auch wenn ihr sie antiquarisch verkauft, bekommt ihr nur einen Pappenstiel - da könnt ihr ruhig die Spuren eures Besitzes in ihnen hinterlassen.

Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.

What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall-- what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing. ((p. 62, Reading & Writing)

Actually, we owe a great deal to those British officers and men and scholars who went deep into our literature, to translate the texts which the brahmins didn't want known outside their own coterie.