Quotes About Literature

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

From then on Dirmit wrapped herself up in a quilt made of words. She slept on a bed of words and sat on a chair of words. Atiye became thousands of words whos days were numbered. NuÄŸber sat waiting for words. Zekiye wept words. Seyit smiled with his gleaming white teeth made of false words. Mahmut pressed his tongue against his teeth and whistled words. Halit banged words on the wall.

Not having any books makes me feel empty and strained and pathetic.

I knew that reading that book would take me into another world — the real world, not the ordinary world of washing the dishes and mopping the floor. It would be like what Keats said about gazing through a magic casement into faery lands forlorn.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

I turned to books for comfort.

As long as we have books, we are not alone.

There is nothing political about American literature.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

I Read, I Smoke, I Admire.

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No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

Nawin: Patética humana Salamandra: Elfa engreída

a menudo encontraba párrafos enteros que no tenían ningún sentido para ella.

Libri faciunt labia, maese Zacarius, libri faciunt labia. Lo cual, en lengua vulgar, significa que 'la lectura perfecciona la elocuencia'.

Adoraba sumergirse entre sus páginas amarillentas, aspirar el olor a libros viejos y dejarse llevar por el poder de las palabras.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

So I separated all my books into stacks: best friends, old friends, classic friends, new friends, and casual acquaintances.

Lately she'd been listening to books on tapes, fat womanly novels as she thought of them. Maeve Binchy, Gail Godwin, Marian Keyes. Pat Conroy—

Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people's company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

She had always thought of it as being rich, having so many books she has yet to read.

Read The Ghost Writer and American Pastoral, then get back to me. What about your father?