Quotes About Literature

Nei momenti difficili, mi era stato insegnato fin dall'infanzia, leggi, impara, datti da fare, rivolgiti alla letteratura. Essere informati significava non perdere il controllo.

In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go tot he literature. Information was control.

It was once suggested to me that, as an antidote to crying, I put my head in a paper bag. As it happens, there is a sound physiological reason, something to do with oxygen, for doing exactly that, but the psychological effect alone is incalculable: it is difficult in the extreme to continue fancying oneself Cathy in Wuthering Heights with one's head in a Food Fair bag.

Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of our own memories but of the experiences of characters from the books we've been reading. That's if we are lucky to have the education and leisure to read at all. And the curiosity

We all overlay our feelings with too much thinking. We are afraid of our feelings because they are arbitrary and volatile, and we often need literature to make our feelings intelligible to us, to make us see that our reaction to what we can't choose and what we can is what shapes our lives.

She marched to the door and said, if I ever marry, Patrick O'Sullivan, I shall make sure that my mate for life is a decent woman, or even, maybe, a book.

How many books does she have? I asked her that and she said she had enough to make two brawny movers weep.

Mas, ou muito me engano, ou acabo de escrever um capítulo inútil.

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Great literary works are not measured by the number of words, but by the impact they create.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.

Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Real life sucks. I'm going to go read a book...

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Mom, I really think I should just stay home. I mean Ive got all this AP English summer reading.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance and alliteration of all of it. Let us now celebrate the sound of our own voices.