Quotes 2 (From Literature)

 

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