The ”text” is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had yanked my skirt up and was running down the road away from her...

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It’s like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

A word (…) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (…) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer.

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around...

Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.

When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her...

..if you could forget mortality… You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making,...

If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.

Literature had torn Tessa and me apart, or prevented us from merging in the first place. That was its role in the world, I’d started to fear: to conjure up disagreements that didn’t matter and...

You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in the spirit of a duel, so you can both wound and be wounded,...

It’s funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?

…to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy…it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and...

There is only one school of literature – that of talent.

Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in...

Puns are the highest form of literature.

My heart was full and uplifted; it seemed that in my soul the question arose whether such things as Art, literature, science encompassed and completed life or whether there was still something in the distance...

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Herkes general olursa savaşı kazanacak kişi kalmaz.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.

The night is still waiting.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote; La Mancha is not just geography; It is our personal territory—Terra Nostra.

It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel...

From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

There seemed no reason why she shouldn’t try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same – you couldn’t just soak it up and then...

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in the grounds; when I went down to the gates and looked through them...

Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it has often accompanied or predicted change, and served to shake up...

Curioso: tal como el escritor selecciona un género -muchas veces no por voluntad propia, sino por las afinidades, las inclinaciones, los gustos- en el cual se siente a sus anchas, lo mismo sucede con el...

His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn’t place – one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before-Tana on Gavriel-page 21-chapter 3

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing

Sleep is death enjoyed.

It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is a whole series of converging reasons why it is somewhat easier for a...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.