Quotes About Literature

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

Some women have a weakness for shoes. i can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

Books, for me, have always been a way to escape. They were my path to personal freedom. I actually learned to read at the age of three, and once I did, I quickly learned that there was a whole world beyond my grandmother's farm in Mississippi.

I consider reading a book a sacred indulgence.

books were my pass to personal freedom

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than seeing the world with words. From the moment he begins to use words like colors in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time.

at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.

De hecho, ¿qué es leer sino dibujar en el silencioso cinematógrafo de nuestra mente una de las cosas que el escritor nos describe con letras?

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

Mutlu olabilmek için her gün bir miktar edebiyatla ilgilenmem gerekiyor.

Lee poco pero con gusto, parecerás más leído que el que lo hace mucho pero aburrido.

el asesinato es algo que, con todos sus detalles y ritos, se aprende de otros, se aprende de las leyendas, de los cuentos, de las memorias, de los periódicos, en suma, de la literatura.

Çünkü bir baÅŸkas?n?n belleÄŸini a??r a??r edinmekten baÅŸka neydi ki okumak?

termitas, gusanos y mil y un bichos carcomerán nuestros libros hasta destruirlos.

Edebi romana, büyük romanlara, hayat? anlamland?racak bir rehber gibi ihtiyaç duymam?z?n nedeni, kendimizi dünyada evde hissedememizdir.

just pop this one out, too

Hayati ciddiye almayi, gencligimde romanlari ciddiye alarak ogrendim. Edebi romanlar bize hayati ciddiye almayi, her seyin elimizde oldugunu, kisisel kararlarimizin hayatimizi sekillendirdigini gostererek ogretir.

Because Anna Karenina could not read the novel she held in her hands, we read Anna Karenina the novel.

why humanity has a spiritual need for a mirror (a custom-built mirror!) such as the novel.

In a smoky corner of my mind I was reminded of a truth drawn from bitter experience: immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

To derive pleasure from a novel is to enjoy the act of departing from words and transforming these things into images in our mind.