Quotes About Literature

Por aquellos años su padre comprendía que un pueblo podía cambiar su modo de vida, su historia, su tecnología, su cultura, su arte y su literatura, pero no le concedía la menor posibilidad de que cambiara sus gestos.

Oh how I burned with a love such as they describe in those books we so cherish and adore.

Zaten romanc? olmak kendi duygular?n?zdan bir baÅŸkas?n?n duygular? gibi ve bir baÅŸkalar?n?n duygular?ndan da kendi duygular?n?z gibi söz edebilme hüneridir.

The reason we turn to literary novels, great novels, where we search for guidance and wisdom that might confer meaning on life, is that we fail to feel at home in the world.

Ka loved Turgenev and his elegant novels, and like the Russian writer Ka too had tired of his own country's never-ending troubles and come to despise its backwardness, only to find himself gazing back with love and longing after a move to Europe. Ka

Cartile nu adauga nefericirii omenesti decat o anumita adancime, pe care noi o socotim a fi consolare.

Nos interesa el límite peligroso de las cosas. El ladrón honesto, el asesino sensible, el ateo supersticioso. ROBERT BROWNING, Apología del obispo Blougram La política en una obra literaria es un tiro de pistola en medio de un concierto, algo grosero pero imposible de ignorar. Estamos a punto de hablar de asuntos muy feos. STENDHAL, La cartuja de Parma

The story spoke to them in just the same way that Oedipus' murder of his father and Macbeth's obsession with power and death speak to people throughout the Western world. But now, because we've fallen under the spell of the West, we've forgotten our own stories. They've removed all the old stories from our children's textbooks. These days, you can't find a single bookseller who stocks the Shehname in all of Istanbul! How do you explain this?

Perché io sia felice è necessario che ogni giorno mi occupi un po' di letteratura.

Mergulhamos na dor e o susto nos devolve à vida. Porque nada pode ser tão espantoso quanto a vida. Exceto a literatura. Sim, claro, exceto a literatura, que é o único consolo.

What would he have to say about the Nabokov Museum in the same city, which during the Stalin era had served as the office of the domestic board of censors?

C?rÈ›ile nu adaug? nefericirii omeneÈ™ti decât o anumit? adâncime, pe care noi o socotim a fi consolare.

Sigara ister misin, sinirini, öfkeni al?r. Süleyman'?n hâlâ öfkesi burnunda.

Benim için hakiki edebiyat?n baÅŸlad??? yer, kitaplarla kendini bir odaya kapatan adamd?r.

Mang theo má»™t cu?n sách trong túi hay gi? xách c?a b?n, nh?t là nh?ng khi bu?n, là s? h?u má»™t th? giá»›i khác, má»™t th? giá»›i có th? mang l?i cho b?n ni?m vui.

Only a poet—not a novelist, and certainly not a historian—would be able to describe the despair that began to seep through the city toward the middle of June.

I could read and walk four miles an hour.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, says Trollope, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasures that God has prepared for His creatures. Other pleasures may be more ecstatic; but the habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know, in which there is no alloy.

the reader will find here that works of literature, like War and Peace, are intercut with episodes from daily life (childhood, marriage, religious life, responses to the landscape, food and drinking habits, attitudes to death) where the outlines of this national consciousness may be discerned. These are the episodes where we may find, in life, the unseen threads of a common Russian sensibility, such as Tolstoy had imagined in his celebrated dancing scene.

Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

Mom, said Peter, nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about. Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience.

All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are correct. For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

I designed Ender's Game to be as clear and accessible as any story of mine could possibly be. My goal was that the reader wouldn't have to be trained in literature or even in science fiction to receive the tale in its simplest, purest form. If everybody came to agree that stories should be told this clearly, the professors of literature would be out of a job, and the writers of obscure, encoded fiction would be, not honored, but pitied for their impenetrability.