Quotes About Literature

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

I could live without television, but not without books.

No author was immune from having his own ideas and words quoted back to him favorably. Authors were, at heart, no matter how much they blustered or how suavely they carried themselves, insecure creatures with sensitive egos, as delicate in the constitution as movie stars, only much poorer and less glamorous.

A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly. Reading a novel while one sipped vodka legitimized the drink, while the drink made the novel seem much shorter than it truly was.

And yet at Yan'an, Mao said that art and literature were crucial to revolution. Conversely, he warned, art and literature could also be tools of domination. Art

A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly. Reading a novel while one sipped vodka legitimized the drink, while the drink made the novel seem much shorter than it truly was. I

A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly.

If I'm unreadable—if all these Asians you refer to are unreadable—perhaps we are only unreadable to those who do not know how to read. Semantics—

It was Didion crossed with Chandler as prophesied by Faulkner and shot by Welles.

We may read the same texts, but the dhvani that manifests within you will be unique. Your beauty will be your own. If you re-read a story that you read 10 years ago, its dhvani within you will be new. Poetr's beauty is infinite.

In the painting I saw, in the books I read, I recalled her, for she her had in many ways been the making of me.

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

He who studies MA in English Literature but fears the name Shakespeare is one who studies shadow but afraid of its statue.

I am a writer. Books are my home and words are my friends.

One who does not like to read is equal to one who cannot read.

I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly missing.

ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics.

He approved the fact that Marie Louise had never read a novel: novels, especially those by women, falsified life by giving too much place to love.

be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.

Mas o que me toca, assim como certos romancistas de nossa época, é que as vozes dessas pessoas, que no caso de Shakespeare nos chegam de uma distância de vários séculos, não nos pareçam desconhecidas. É tão vivo que acreditamos conhecê-las e vê-las.