You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don’t fall for their promises.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our...

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Ah, a literatura!… – exclamou. – Meu amigo, ler não é pensar a sós: ler é dialogar! Porém o diálogo da leitura é um diálogo platónico: o teu interlocutor constitui uma ideia. Contudo não se...

How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.

Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

If this isn ‘ t literature, nothing is.

Before I could respond, I looked out the window again and as if in response to my thoughts, I saw Cooper walking up my driveway. My jaw dropped. I peeked around the kitchen doorframe. Mom...

Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)

Pienso que en la vida de cada uno de nosotros existe un libro similar, que de pequeños no nos limitamos simplemente a leer, sino que inspeccionamos y rebuscamos en cada uno de sus rincones como...

It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image.(The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten).

There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.

Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life, and it ought not to be.(Southey’s reply to Charlotte Bronte)

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of...

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose....

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there’s no place left for us to be human.

If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as...

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we...

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one’s life.

We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a...

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

En yakın arkadaşım, Matriyona yoktu artık… Son gününde bir kazak yüzünden nasılda azarlamıştım!

Adlar daima insana dert oluyordu. Hayat ve zevkler değişir ama adlar kalır.

Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.

Through books I discovered everything to be loved, explored, visited, communed with. I was enriched and given all the blueprints to a marvelous life, I was consoled in adversity, I was prepared for both joys...

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

Creating means living.

When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched...

Either you will be you or you will not be at all.

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

O perigo de penetrar apaixonadamente no mundo dos livros é o de nos tornarmos, nós próprios, no aglomerado de pequenos excertos literários.

Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only...

We are all one. Everything is meaningless, and yet at the same time meaningful. Everything matters and doesn’t matter just as much,” Wisdom said and looked beyond time.(Nakoma, by Gala.J)

In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.

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

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was...

When the owner of the pig arrived he found a scrawny and bloodcovered white boychild standing on what was left of his property sawing at it with a knife and hauling on the skin and...

He couldn’t imagine using the word ‘rewarding’ about a work of art – for instance that such and such a book has given me so much, taught me so much, etc etc. – but thought...