Quotes (2)
(From Literature)
1.
“The books transported her into new
worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went
on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest
Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world
while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl
2.
“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound
3.
“Everybody does have a book in them, but
in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens
4.
“Without literature, life is hell.”
― Charles Bukowski
5.
“When I look back, I am so impressed
again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today,
trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by
reading, just as I did when I was young.”
― Maya Angelou
6.
“The man who reads nothing at all is
better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson
7.
“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.”
― Ishmael Reed
8.
“The reading of all good books is like
conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes
9.
“In the end, you have to choose whether
or not to trust someone.”
― Sophie Kinsella
10.
“Writing and reading decrease our sense
of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the
soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose
and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy
is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along
with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over
again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't
stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the
people who are together on that ship.”
― Anne Lamott
11.
“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.”
― Matthew Quick
12.
“I couldn't live a week without a
private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on
the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books, I possess.”
― H. P. Lovecraft
13.
“We all live with the objective of being
happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
― Anne Frank
14.
“The truth is, everyone likes to look
down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in
Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all
Oprah Book Club books, you can at least look down on mystery readers. Mystery
readers have sci-fi readers. Sci-fi can look down on fantasy. And yes, fantasy
readers have their own snobbishness. I’ll bet this, though: in a hundred years,
people will be writing a lot more dissertations on Harry Potter than on John
Updike. Look, Charles Dickens wrote popular fiction. Shakespeare wrote popular
fiction—until he wrote his sonnets, desperate to show the literati of his day
that he was real artist. Edgar Allan Poe tied himself in knots because no one
realized he was a genius. The core of the problem is how we want to define
“literature”. The Latin root simply means “letters”. Those letters are either
delivered—they connect with an audience—or they don’t. For some, that audience
is a few thousand college professors and some critics. For others, its twenty
million women desperate for romance in their lives. Those connections happen
because the books successfully communicate something real about the human
experience. Sure, there are trashy books that do really well, but that’s
because there are trashy facets of humanity. What people value in their
books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them
than it does about the book.”
― Brent weeks
15.
“You should never read just for
"enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt
to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick
"hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for
god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only
have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of
"literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.”
― John Waters
16.
“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[...].”
― Simone de Beauvoir
17.
“Every man's memory is his private
literature.”
― Aldous Huxley
18.
“Reading is the fruitful miracle of a
communication in the midst of solitude.”
― Proust-M
19.
“Serious literature does not exist to
make life easy but to complicate it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz
20.
“People wonder why the novel is the most
popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of
science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that
the novel is more true than they are.”
― G. K. Chesterton
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