Quotes About Literature

i love reading book

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare's plays.

Writers give readers courage – the courage to be utterly your complete and complex self. (In reference to Audre Lorde)

Es una realidad desafortunada que únicamente dos cosas, el escándalo y la controversia, venden más periódicos y libros que los grandes ejemplos de literatura y educación juntos." (Traducción: Mireia Terés)

great literature is literature that speaks to deep, fundamental human truths and experience in a way that is relatable to the reader and that may provoke engagement or facilitate insight into these truths and experiences. If these truths and experiences are about breaches of the normal, then surely horror has a place in literature, and in facts may proffer deep engagement with the most profound aspects of our existence. Sometimes only horror can say what needs to be said.

There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.

Everything from Colette to Kerouac.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

The feeling inside that she experienced when she saw the books was akin to the hunger she felt as food was put on the table at the end of the working day. And she knew that she needed this sustenance as surely as her body needed its fuel.

Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning, becoming thoughts outside my head becoming sentences written by Jacqueline Amanda Woodson

That's what up , Amari said. Read those poems in all kinds of American, son.

When we meet characters in books, fall in love with them, cheer for them, we become more empathetic. More hopeful. More thoughtful about the bigger world.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

Reading in no way obliges us to understand.

Escutemos bem Marc Bloch. Ele não diz: a história é uma arte, a história é literatura. Frisa: a história é uma ciência, mas uma ciência que tem como uma de suas características, o que pode significar sua fraqueza mas também sua virtude, ser poética, pois não pode ser reduzida a abstrações, a leis, a estruturas.

If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?

Under the word refuge , I found this definition: "Small structure high in the mountains where climbers can spend the night." In my opinion that was the best definition of a novel.

Upravo to je književnost: umetnost pisanja koja ublažava raliku izme?u sveta umetnosti i sveta obi?nog života tako što izjedna?ava sve teme.

Mon livre de chevet, c'est un revolver. Mi libro de cabecera es un revólver.

You go through more bestsellers than a McCarthy bonfire.

I love to read

But mostly I had books - so many books, and they were mine; I would not have to part with them. It had always been a dream of mine to just own a lot of books, to never part with a book once I had read it.