4,370 Quotes About Literature

Het was een vergissing vanwege de juf, te denken dat alleen de dingen die in de boeken staan interessant zijn. Ook deze, die er nog niet in staan, zijn merkwaardig.

Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that … [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet.

turning the pages patientlyin search of meanings

To hell with irony and wit! I read to be moved.

He felt as he always did when he finished a book—queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity. It was always the same, always the same—like toiling uphill through jungle and breaking out to a clearing at the top after months of hell only to discover nothing more rewarding than a view of a freeway—with a few gas stations and bowling alleys thrown in for good behavior, or something.

A book seems innocent and unassuming, yet it tells a whole story between its covers.

Visos knygos vertingos, jokių detektyvų ar kitokio lengvesnio skaitalo, o vien tik rusų, prancūzų, amerikiečių, anglų, vokiečių literatūros klasikai, beveik visi tarybinės lietuvių prozos ir poezijos leidiniai.