4,370 Quotes About Literature

Esbandalhados nós estávamos, escatimados naquela esfrega. Esmorecidos é que não. Nenhum se lastimava, filhos do dia, acho mesmo que ninguém se dizia de dar por assim. Jagunço é isso. Jagunço não se escabrêia com perda nem derrota — quase que tudo para ele é o igual. Nunca vi. Pra ele a vida já está assentada: comer, beber, apreciar mulher, brigar, e o fim final.

A novel is not an allegory . . . It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don’t enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won’t be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.

Writing, when it springs from within, is like giving birth, and the child is covered in mucus

It was culture as class performance, literature fetishized for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterward feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about. Even if the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing.

How annoyed I am with Society for wasting my time by making homosexuality criminal. The subterfuges, the self-consciousness that might have been avoided

It used to be a gentleman was known by his books; nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

Is there anything in a world more magical than a library?

நல்ல எழுத்துங்கிறது படிக்கிறவனை IMPRESS பண்றதுக்காக எழுதப்பட்டது இல்லே,தன்னை EXPRESS பண்றதுக்காக ஒருத்தன் எழுதுறது.

நகைகளின் ஒவ்வொரு புடைப்பும் வளைவும் ஓர் அழகுணர்ச்சியின் பரு வடிவம். மலைச்சிகரங்களின் வளைவும் புடைப்பும் ஆயிரமாயிரம் இயற்கை நிகழ்வுகள் மூலம் பிரபஞ்ச சக்திகள் உருவாக்கியவை. நாவல் என்பது மலை. நகையின் நுட்பமல்ல, மலையின் மாண்பே அதற்கு உரியது.