Literature Quotes - Page 10

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

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

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas, impedes communication because it does not match the subtlety of our minds or emotions, the multimedia of our unconscious life.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us of what God once reminded us before He too evaporated in this age of relentless humiliations - that we are more than ourselves; that we have souls.

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

There is only as much space, only as much time,
Only as much desire, only as many words,
Only as many pages, only as much ink
To accept all of us at light-speed
Hurrying into the Promised Land
Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

When it comes to literature, we are all groping in the dark, even the writer. Especially the writer. And that is a good thing-maybe one of the best things about literature. It's always an adventure of some kind.

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can help you realize that your present will someday be someone else’s past. This may be disheartening, but it can also be strangely consoling at times.