Quotes and sayings about tag  literature

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

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• Humor

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

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• Writing

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

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• Writing

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

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• Books

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

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• Writing

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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• Love

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

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• Books

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

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• Books

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

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• Books

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

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• Books

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

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• Books

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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• Books

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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• Books

After all, tomorrow is another day!

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• Life

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

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• Knowledge

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

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• Books

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

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• Life

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

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• Life

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

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• Books

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

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• Books

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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• Humor

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

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• Books

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.

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• Books

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

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• Books

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[...].

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• Books

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

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• Motivational

A good book is an event in my life.

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• Books

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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• Inspirational

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

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• Humor

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.)

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• Books