Quotes About Literature

To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air and living contentedly among its people - and now I was expected to pronounce a judgement about its worth?

In the meantime, I hope you will not consign her to a windowless environment populated entirely by unsocialized clones who long ago abandoned the reading and discussion of literature in favor of creating ever more restrictive and meaningless ways in which humans are intended to make themselves known to one another.

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

B. A. Botkin's Lay My Burden Down and the Federal Writers' Project book, The Negro in Virginia.

Instead of sniping at her like Mrs. Mi, Mrs. Ting let my mother do all sorts of things she wanted, like reading novels: before, reading a book without a Marxist cover would bring down a rain of criticism about being a bourgeois intellectual.

Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

Eines Tages«, sagte sie, »fange ich Träume ein wie Schmetterlinge.« »Und dann?«, fragte er. »Lege ich sie zwischen die Seiten dicker Bücher und presse sie zu Worten.« »Was, wenn jemand immer nur von dir träumt?« »Dann sind wir beide vielleicht schon Worte in einem Buch. Zwei Namen zwischen all den anderen.«

Jedes Buch ist ein Ort an den man wieder und wieder zurück kehren kann.

Sie haben Freunde.« »Wir haben Bücher.«

Some Palaeolithic heroes survived in later mythical literature. The Greek hero Herakles, for example, is almost certainly a relic of the hunting period.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

Nothing goes better with a good book than a cup of hot tea and a scone.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

Reading Austen is a frickin' mine field.

Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?

need to pull out the Shakespeare.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'un livre n'a pas de succès qu'il est forcément bon.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Tek tek uluslar?n düÅŸünsel yarat?lar? hepsinin ortak mal? olmaktad?r. Ulusal tek yanl?l?k ve dar kafal?l?k her geçen gün biraz daha olanaks?zlaÅŸmakta, çok say?da ulusal ve yerel edebiyattan bir dünya edebiyat? doÄŸmaktad?r.

We do not here refer to that literature which, in every great modern revolution, has always given voice to the demands of the proletariat, such as the writings of Babeuf and others.

Ta?u, ja atmetam dzeju, reli?ija ir mor?lais kodekss, kas tiek izpausts caur le?end?m, m?tiem un vis?da veida liter?riem sacer?jumiem ar m?r?i izveidot tic?jumu, v?rt?bu un normu sist?mu,ar kuras pal?dz?bu regul?t k?du kult?ru vai sabiedr?bu.

Katrai gr?matai ir dv?sele - t? cilv?ka dv?sele, kurš gr?matu sarakst?jis, un to cilv?ku dv?seles, kuri gr?matu las?juši un kop? ar to sap?ojuši.