Quotes About Literature

We'd never set eyes on each other before. But that's the work that books do, reaching out further than their writers.

Woolf liberates the text, the imagination, the fictional character, and then demands that liberty for ourselves, most particularly for women.

our interrogation of Woolf's reproductive status was a soporific and pointless detour from the magnificent questions her work poses. (I think at some point I said, "Fuck this shit," which carried the same general message, and moved everyone on from the discussion.) After all, many people make babies; only one made To the Lighthouse and Three Guineas, and we were discussing Woolf because of the latter.

This is the strange life of books that you enter alone as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes in which we meet.

I understand that there is a writer named Jonathan Franzen, but I have not read him.

Sidda can't help herself, She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves those black letters marching across the white pages.

There was also a daughter, very short, very plump, very gay, an amazing production for the Gregorievitches. It was as if two very serious authors had set out to collaborate and then had published a limerick.

Literature is an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

Mamma was aware that there were many people who read what she called trashy books, but it was news to her that there were people who read nothing at all.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

L'essentiel est de lire beaucoup. N'importe quoi. Ce qu'on a envie de lire. Le tri se fait après. Et même la mauvaise littérature est nourricière. La seule littérature stérilisante, la littérature prétentieuse, philosophisante, cuistre, est sans danger pour les enfants parce qu'ils ne peuvent pas pénétrer dedans. Ils la rejettent, comme ils tournent le bouton de la T.V. au moment des discours politiques. Ce sont des sages.

After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it was dandelion wine and ice cream on a summer porch, like Ray Bradbury, and catching catfish with Huck Finn. My own memories receded and the book memories became the real memories, far more than the outside, far more even than in here.

He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.

Sie wissen, dass sich dort draußen kein Mensch für Literatur interessiert und sie die letzten Hüter einer glorreichen, in die Krise geratenen Tradition sind.

Porque Kafka descubre un nuevo modo de leer: la literatura le da forma a la experiencia vivida, la constituye como tal y la anticipa.

Lo que me interesa señalar en el bellísimo final de «Trön...» es algo que encontraremos en muchos otros textos de Borges: la lectura como defensa. La quietud a la que alude la hipálage está en el acto de leer; todo queda en suspenso; la vida, por fin, se ha detenido.

Cómo podía ser que nadie comprendiera? se había preguntado Tardewski. ¿O sólo leemos lo que ya hemos leído, una y otra vez, para buscar en las palabras lo que sabemos que está en ellas, sin que sorpresa alguna pueda variar el sentido?

Lo que en el sueño no salió fue el título, dijo. Ponele: Retrato del artista, dijo Renzi. No, dijo Marconi, se trata de eso por ahí, pero ese título es demasiado explícito. En un poema que trata sobre el artista, la palabra artista no tiene que aparecer y menos en el título. ¿Es una ley o no es una ley? En literatura, dijo, lo más importante nunca deber ser nombrado.

Nunca nadie hizo jamás buena literatura con historias familiares. Regla de oro para los escritores debutantes: si escasea la imaginación, hay que ser fiel a los detalles.

Laudant illa, sed ista legunt.

IT TAKES SOME temerity to publish, in a new edition, a book written more than thirty years ago.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

Kiekviename ši? knyg? puslapyje rašytojas ?spaud? save, ir mes, s?d?dami bibliotek? tyloje, panor?j? galime ?skaityti j? ? savo gyvenim?.

You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel