Quotes About Literature

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Let's take a minute to talk about spellbooks, since, in this day and age when magic is no longer taught in schools (or is, at best, an elective like Home Economics), very few people have the experience with spellbooks that they used to.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

She was a thinking bosom and one who overpowered her young lovers, all Sybil — a Romantic.

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Consigned the sandals to my hand

Praise to Válmíki,2bird of charming song,3 Who mounts

Míthilá. 50. "I congratulate myself,"says Schlegel in the preface to his, alas, unfinished edition of the Rámáyan,"that

may still be traced in the present Ajudhyá near Fyzabad. Ajudhyá is the Jerusalem

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Shakespeare's plays and poems in their entirety amount to 5 megabytes, the equivalent of just a single high-resolution photograph, or of 30 seconds of high-fidelity sound, or of 8 seconds of streamed high-definition video.

Ciencia, pero también arte, sobre todo arte; literatura, poesía como la de Virgilio que hemos leído tantas veces juntos: actividades del espíritu que nos hacen muy parecidos a Dios.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

Les livres sont ce que nous avons de meilleur en cette vie, ils sont notre immortalité.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

Perhaps the best way to teach Freud today is as literature, with his standing in psychology departments oscillating between embarrassing footnote and outright pariah.

The odd conjuncture of psychoanalysis with literature dramatizes the perplexing deconstructions and inversions that can occur as Theory, capital T, meets "primary" texts in classrooms.

Works of art and literature should promote humans to reflection. A revolutionary perspective should be evoked and a changing societal awakening formulated in the human mind mired in tradition, myth and many kinds of falsehoods. They demand a form of changing social awakening.

Based on my review of the scientific literature, I suggest that you aim for a daily carbohydrate intake target that is based on your training workload as indicated by Table 6.1. Be sure to use your optimal racing weight instead of your current weight to make these calculations, as you're not trying to fuel your excess fat stores for optimal performance!