(From
Literature)
1.
“Music expresses that which cannot be
put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo
2.
“That is part of the beauty of all
literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're
not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.
“Stories of imagination tend to upset
those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett
4.
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its
glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty
to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of
liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us
as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
5.
“There is no surer foundation for a
beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse
6.
“A classic is a book that has never
finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino
7.
“She read books as one would breathe
air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard
8.
“Literature is the most agreeable way of
ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa
9.
“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal
10.
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a
temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens
11.
“Literature is a textually transmitted disease,
normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen
12.
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a
necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton
13.
“It's not all bad. Heightened
self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and
self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without
them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind,
laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry
14.
“What an astonishing thing a book is.
It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted
lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind
of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the
millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head,
directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding
together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books
break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working
magic."
― Carl Sagan
15.
“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!”
― Connie Willis
16.
“From that time on, the world was hers
for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of
intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of
quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and
when she wanted to feel a closeness to some-one, she could read a biography. On
that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a
day as long as she lived.”
― Betty Smith
17.
“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.”
― Roald Dahl
18.
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to
me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English
language.”
― Henry James
19.
“He liked the mere act of reading, the
magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”
― John Green
20.
“I know every book of mine by its smell,
and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of
things.”
― George Gissing
Comments