Quotes About Literature

Bengali and Malayalam industries are driven by sensible and subtle stories that people can relate to due to the states' literary and cultural heritage.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

When Homer composed the Iliad and Odyssey, he was drawing on centuries of history and folklore handed down by oral tradition. When Nicolas Poussin painted The Rape of the Sabine Women, he was re-creating Roman history. When Marcel Proust dipped his petites madeleines into his tea, the taste and aroma set off a flood of memories and emotions from which modern literature has still not recovered.

He was your usual man when it came to romance, which is to say he couldn't recite Baa Baa Black Sheep when sober, whereas when drunk, sixteen cantos of Byron's Don Juan was par for the course.

My brother has his swords, I have my books. A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

La literatura utiliza las figuras retóricas como un arma en su antagonismo con el sentido puro, con la significación abstracta que han tomado las palabras en el discurso cotidiano.

We live for books.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.

Roger Høibakk flirte og tenkte i det stille at han var heldig som hadde holdt seg unna familielivet. I kriminallitteraturen hadde aldri, eller nesten aldri, etterforskere familie, i alle fall ikke unger. Hverken i bøkene til Kim Småge, Gunnar Staalesen eller Anne Holt.

A book is a beautifully written troll

Inflate the sentence. Try to make it burst.