Quotes About Literature

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

Trovo la televisione molto educativa. Ogni volta che qualcuno la accende, vado in biblioteca e leggo un buon libro.

Groucho Marx "This is not a book that should be set aside lightly - it should be flung with great force.

I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

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Literature is the product of life. Life is its soil. And the richness or poverty of the soil determines whether a work of literature is vigorous or feeble. A great tree will not grow from barren land; only rich soil and clear water will enable it to flourish.

Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and craft of writing, have reminded me that it is the commitment to the craft that matters the most; the longing to get better and the countless hours of work that go into writing and rewriting. To them I am eternally grateful.

J'aime mieux me promener sur les quais, cette délicieuse bibliothèque publique.

Ako stvarno misliš da pisci imaju moralne vrednosti koje daju svojim likovima, onda si stvarno naivan. ?ak i pomslo glup.

En prétendant raconter la vie dans vos romans, vous mentez. La vie est trop complexe pour être mise équation ou pour se laisser enfermer dans les pages d'un livre. Elle est plus forte que les maths ou que la fiction. Le roman, c'est de la fiction. Et la fiction, c'est techniquement du mensonge.

Julián había apostado por el «cuente, no cante», como exigía Juan Rulfo a sus alumnos en el Centro Mexicano de Escritores

Esa sería su venganza. Una obra magna creada desde el agujero negro. Un monumento de amor construido con palabras. Un edificio erigido de la nada cuyos planos diseñaría en un braille cerebral. La literatura, una balsa salvadora en el gigantesco y oscuro océano de un metro treinta por un metro. Se

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

The room smelled milky, of vanilla and almond, from the breakdown of chemical compounds in the old paper.

En la literatura la salud tiene un concepto distinto al tradicional. Para que una obra posea cierta salud espiritual el escritor tendria que estar podrido por dentro.

I would say that it is an advantage to belong to a small country. We are apt to be less provincial in scholarly undertakings. We don't have enough literature in various problems - we must always look on the whole world. No country can be so provincial as a big country. The United States is, in my opinion, the most provincial country I have lived in - an I'm afraid that England and France don't come very far behind.

If a good person suffers, then the bad person should suffer even more: this is an idea that seems embedded in the human psyche. Consciously one denies it, of course, and proclaims piously, 'I'm not the sort of person who holds grudges.' Yet one unconsciously applauds when the villain 'gets what he deserves'. Wanting to punish a villain or seeing him punished is ubiquitous in literature, movies and politics.

It is literature,' said Kafka smiling. 'Flight from reality.' 'So poetry is lies?' 'No. Poetry is a condensate, an essence. Literature, on the other hand, is a relaxation, a means of pleasure which alleviates the unconscious life, a narcotic.' 'And poetry?' 'Poetry is exactly the opposite. Poetry is an awakening.' 'So poetry tends towards religion.' 'I would not say that. But certainly to prayer.

The author in his work should be like God in the universe: everywhere present and nowhere visible.

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.