Quotes About Literature

Los libros tienen que pesar porque el mundo entero está encerrado en ellos.

I'd rather spend my money on books than unnecessary electricity...

There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any courser like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Some books should be tasted some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Quando ti porti dietro un libro avviene qualcosa di straordinario: le sue pagine raccoglieranno i tuoi ricordi. E un giorno ti basterà risfogliarle per tornare col pensiero al luogo dove le hai lette per la prima volta.

Certi libri vanno assaporati lentamente, altri divorati in un sol boccone. E solo alcuni, pochi, vanno masticati per digerirli completamente.

I think she'd sell her soul to the devil without thinking if he offered her the right book for it.

She looked inquiringly at Meggie. "Do you like Alice in Wonderland?" "Not particularly," said Meggie, staring at the map. Elinor shook her head at such childish folly and turned back to Dustfinger.

Los libros deben ser pesados porque contienen el peso del mundo en ellos

After all, there's nothing like a few comforting pages of a book when you're way from home, right?

She dreamed of martens in black jackets and a book in a brown paper cover.

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends!

Whenever she wanted to escape her own thoughts, she went to books for help.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

My library was dukedom large enough. William Shakespeare, The Tempest

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman? Solomon Eagle

They let him in without a word, their prince's poet, the man who put their world in ink words, and had made it out of words.

Come se ogni volta, fra le pagine, rimanesse attaccato qualcosa: sensazioni, pensieri, rumori, odori... E quando a distanza di anni li riapri, ritrovi te stesso, un po' più giovane, un po' diverso, quasi il libro ti avesse conservato come un fiore fatto seccare tra le pagine... un po' estraneo e un po' familiare.»

Ma scusa, lo dici sempre anche tu: i libri devono essere pesanti perché dentro hanno il mondo intero.

Non c'è niente che sappia consolare meglio di qualche pagina ben scritta quando sei lontano da casa, vero?

Sommige boeken proef je, andere verslind je, en slechts enkele kauw je, en verteer je helemaal.

Faber sniffed the book. "Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

For me -- for pretty much every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?