Literature Quotes
Bob, I am grateful for yourThree letter name.It's another reminder of homeOf a world predictableOf a life I had.
You stand for what is right-for the patient and the staff.Pressures of work may down you, maybe bent but not broken.
Haris...as a naive migrantwho just moved here, relying on you tapered worries.
Even the new things thatI less than know, I keep trying, did againuntil perfect.
Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl who had so much fun and was very daring. My sons loved all the Dr. Seuss books
Her works are said to be too far from reality to be considered real literature. “Why doesn’t she write about life?” the people of Rabbit Back ask.
The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..
Valuing a writer only for their diversity, but not their humanity or talent – that’s tokenism.
Perhaps somebody has alredy written it. But I want to write a story from the end till the very beginning.
Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it's not my genre.
Getting my legal situation fixed takes a bit longer than we all thought: twelve years to be exact. Not a big deal. Only most of my life.
Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.
They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.
Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing
To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.
Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs.
The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.
The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're "decoding
(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings.
I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.
The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.
Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.
Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps: No.Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.
I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.
Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.
Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book
It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story.
Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs
Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.
What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday.
It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...
She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.
Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.
I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.
Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.
Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.
It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image.(The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten).