Quotes on “literature”

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!

Me, poor man, my libraryWas dukedom large enough.

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

A good book is an event in my life.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.