Quotes About Literature

We don't burn our books, she says. We pulp them. Much more civilized, right? Mash them up, recycle them into toilet paper. Those books wiped someone's rear end a long time ago.

Over the past two weeks she's worked her way through it [the book], a little each night, savoring the words like a cherry Life Saver tucked inside her cheek.

So you banned all those books, Sadie said, and the teacher had blinked twice at her over her glasses. Oh no, sweetie, she said. People think that sometimes, but no. No one bans anything. Haven't you ever heard of the Bill of Rights? The class giggled, and Sadie flushed. Every school makes its own independent judgments, the teacher said.

Mac's Backs supplied him with well-worn copies of On the Road and Dharma Bums, the poems of Frank O'Hara and Rainer Maria Rilke and Pablo Neruda,

Los dos tenían esa sabiduría libresca que oculta una sorprendente ingenuidad.

Any act of writing is an act of empathy: you try to imagine yourself into another person's mind and skin. I tried to ask myself the questions the characters would have asked themselves. The

Poems of Akhmatova, selected and translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward, gives

He wonders who decided which books were too dangerous to keep, and who it was that had to hunt down and collect the condemned books, like an executioner, ferrying them to their doom.

The weight of everything he's read settles on him, crushing him to his chair. It is too heavy. He cannot even lift his head.

Bizler ki ayn? kitaba ba? e?mi? insanlar?z. Bizden ala akraba m? olur?

?nsanlar kötüydü, kitaplara s???nd?m.

Seçme hürriyetimizin s?n?rs?z oldu?u tek dünya, kitaplar dünyas?d?r.

Modernleri büyüleyen, Yunanistan'?n en az apolloncu yönü kadar dionizoscu yönü de olmu?tur. Üç yüzy?ld?r, Eski Yunan mitoslar?n? yeni ba?tan yorumluyor Avrupa; Avrupal? yazarla­r? büyüleyen, bu mitoslar?n ilkel ve ha?in taraflar?. Yunan ve Latin edebiyatlanna ancak ?u manada klasik demek yerindedir: mekteplerde okutulurlar ve her zaman tazedirler.

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.

La letteratura è una difesa contro le offese della vita.

Sono libri, – disse lui, – leggici dentro fin che puoi. Sarai sempre un tapino se non leggi nei libri.

la literatura es la defensa frente a las ofensas de la vida

Le interessano i libri? - disse Rosetta animandosi. - Legge molto? - Durante la guerra. Non si sapeva cosa fare. Ma non ci riesco mica. Ho sempre l'impressione di mettere il naso negli affari degli altri... Rosetta si divertì e mi guardò. - ...Mi sembra una cosa indecente. Come aprire le lettere degli altri...

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

Literature is a power, like a foreign language you possess.

Literature, well done, illustrates the reality of human nature.

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

Out in Africa examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same sex desire, as it is at odds with an apparent context of heteronormativity and emphasis on reproduction, in a pan-African context, from the nineteenth century to the present.