Quotes About Literature

Young people want mirrors. Older people want art. If I couldn't see myself, my world, in Cheever or Gatsby, I rejected them.

A big segment of the storytelling is about personal suffering. There's the stink of catharsis. Of melodrama and memoir. A writer friend refers to this school as "the-sun-is-shining-the-birds-are-singing-and-my-father-is-on-top-of-me-again" literature.

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story

For him, libraries served as that escape: They were routinely calm, if not always quiet, and of course they surrounded him with books. Sweet, sweet books. Each book, a treasure chest of knowledge.

Look like chick books." "And you're a chick, so what's the problem?" She laughs. "Well, you've got beans and franks, or so I assume." "Hey," he says, suddenly all serious. "Reading books by female authors does not limit my macho vibe. Plus, bitches write the best characters, man. It's like they get people, you know?

Uma casa sem livros é como um corpo sem alma

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A book is a suicide postponed.

Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world.

Katherine Mansfield, clearly speaking personally, had remarked wryly in 1924 that "the true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone—reading between the lines—has become the secret friend of their author,"54

Mrs. Bennet, Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris, Mrs. Elton, the Steele sisters, Fanny Dashwood, Elizabeth Elliot, Mrs. Clay, Lady Catherine de Bourgh … all differentiated, all unique in their unpleasantness.

she really does seem to admire Elizabeth. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, & how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.34

1894, George Saintsbury was confident that "a fondness for Miss Austen" could be considered "itself a patent of exemption from any possible charge of vulgarity.

To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a novel even while appreciating its value.

Her self, then, was represented in her books.

He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at a time, because when a poem spoke to him it was as if a brilliant, agonizing light had been turned upon some tiny, private cell of his soul.

Proust is long-winded, precious, and a bit of an old woman

Read with joy!

Clifford D. Simak

March-April 1935 issue of Crawford's Marvel Tales, and it probably was not seen by more than a few hundred people. But

He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book written in blood.

I have a smack of Hamlet myself , if I do say so .

And nobody has ever gotten emotional over a James Patterson novel.

Books are precious things, and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.