Quotes About Literature

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Everybody talked about Freud when I lived in New Orleans, but I have never read him. Neither did Shakespeare. I doubt if Melville did either, and I'm sure Moby Dick didn't. (William Faulkner)

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe. (on Mark Twain)

El que fa la literatura és el mayeix que un llumí enmig d'un camp en plena nit. Un llumí amb prou feines il·lumina, però ens permet veure quanta foscor hi ha al voltant.

Read, read, read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read!

INTERVIEWER Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them? FAULKNER Read it four times.

O que a literatura faz é o mesmo que acender um fósforo no campo no meio da noite. Um fósforo não ilumina nada, mas permite ver quanta escuridão existe ao redor.

Yes. Because they were human men. They were trying to write down the heart's truth out of the heart's driving complexity, for all the complex and troubled hearts which would beat after them.

People who would soon be seen in New York reading French books were seen here reading Italian.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

I have a lot of books and books are better if you can share them.

Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug.

If J.G. Ballard had been on Twitter, I doubt he'd have cat-posted. Wm. S. Burroughs, on the other hand, probably would have. He loved cats. I received Christmas cards from Burroughs. All were cute cat cards.

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers' existence during the time the fiction was written.

Proust cookies. It was literally all he knew of Proust, though he'd once had to listen to someone's lengthy argument that Proust had either described madeleines incorrectly or been describing something else entirely.

I had read and admired Ballard and Burroughs, and I thought of them as very powerful effect pedals. You get to a certain place in the story and you just step on the Ballard.

Allusions to Golding's book can be found in movies (Hook with Robin Williams), television (a stand-up comedy bit in Seinfeld, "The Library," season 3, episode 5), the novels of Stephen King, and contemporary music. Three of the most powerful and relevant songs that reference the novel include U2's "Shadows and Tall Trees," Iron Maiden's "Lord of the Flies," and The Offspring's "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid.

Hayat?n belli bir düzeni yoktur, Summers. Edebiyat?n kusuru da ona bir düzen vermeye kalkmas?d?r.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

Is this a kissing book?

For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.

Princess. By S. Morgenstern. It's a kids' classic. Tell him I'll quiz him on it when I'm back next week and that he doesn't have to like it or anything, but if he doesn't, tell him I'll kill myself. Give him that message exactly please; I wouldn't want to apply any extra pressure or anything.

the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.