Quotes About Literature

Een boek bestaat alleen uit woorden. En dat is het prachtige ervan. Het is misschien niet gemaakt van de stof waarvan dromen gemaakt zijn, maar wel van iets dat er vlak naast gelegen heeft.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!

Los libros no se han hecho para servir de adorno: sin embargo, nada hay que embellezca tanto como ellos en el interior del hogar.

Why is someone only passionate about books if they're into literary books that win prizes? Why can't you be passionate about books and only read romance?

A bank book makes good reading — better than some novels.

Boeken die niet gebaseerd zijn op een schema zijn weekdieren.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

A good book, the most important resource in the world.

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. —ANDRÉ MAUROIS

Beauvoir lent Maheu a recent English novel she had enjoyed, The Green Hat , by Michael Arlen. She admired its independent heroine, Iris Storm. Maheu did not. 'I have no liking for women of easy virtue,' he told her. 'Much as I like a woman to please me, I find it impossible to respect any woman I've had.' Beauvoir was indignant. 'One does not have an Iris Storm!

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.

this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod

Even back then I understood the real purpose of literature. I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men.

Heather Vogel Frederick

A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.

How simple it could be! The answer to the problem of being anything was being it. How admirable Teddy was! From the ashes of his broken childhood he had formed a decision to be a cheerful person, a do-gooding scientific type with knowledge of English literature. That he had undercurrents of sadness as long and deep as a river was not the point. He had claimed a territory for himself and did not think too much about the complications.