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.

I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called ‘I’ and you know nothing else about him, just as this station is called only...

The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why...

We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much and hold it so dear, why we pin our hopes on...

Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes–characters...

I guarantee you (his opponents) will use it in campaign literature.

Katolikler, soyadınızı bilmeseler de, Katolik olup olmadığınızı anlamaya çalışırlar hep.

Defining moment in new telepathist’s life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn’t telepathic, doesn’t see auras,doesn’t know what life on ethereal astral plane is like.

Most people are afflicted with an inability to say what they see or think. They say there’s nothing more difficult than to define a spiral in words; they claim it is necessary to use the...

[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like a cry, perhaps, a cry that, somehow, inexplicably contains all the...

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It’s an important part of epic literature.

People won’t see Imagination in something that doesn’t relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expectations of a story,...

Do not speak unflatteringly of Jane,” Flora said, walking beside Chad. “She is the greatest writer to have ever lived.” “I thought that was Shakespeare.” “William was, or course, quite good,” Flora said. “But no...

The best part of being a nanny, Katya thought, was reading children’s books aloud to enraptured children like Tricia, for no one had read such books aloud to her when she’d been a little girl....

I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some...

On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.

Bana aynı anda hem 800,000 kitabı hem de karanlığı veren Tanrı’nın muhteşem ironisi

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even that didn’t matter if, in the end, readers needed something to be there....

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to...

I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, heard, did. I now felt that I knew what the white man were feeling. Merely because...

These two oo in “book” are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.

I should point out, creating one’s own style, as much as is required to illustrate one of the aspects, the golden seam of language, involves beginning again at once, in a different manner, adopting the...

We all R failures that’s why V need #CHILDREN to fulfill D needs of #Society,#Nation,#Worlds , so that we can live the same old selfish way

That’s why I’ve just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There’s not a book here, Lawford, that hasn’t at least a glimmer of the real thing...

And adab towards language means the recognition and acknowledgement of the rightful and proper place of every word in a written or uttered sentence so as not to produce a dissonance in meaning, sound and...

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as a rule, hate literary conversation, and yet at the right moment,...

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively to attack those pieties for no other reason than the visibility such an attack will generate, when...

Don’t for God’s sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself – poor me!

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!–Hamlet (I, v, 106)

But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn’t ‘a nice man’, and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers’ work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a...

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

Here’s what I mean by the miracle of language. When you’re falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader’s heart and...

Where they (modern books) are true they will give us truths we half knew already. Where they are false they will aggravate the error with which we are already dangerously ill. The only palliative is...

Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common...

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

1) Wir haben lang genug geliebt…2) Wir Wollen endlich hassen!3) Wir haben lang genug gehasst4) Wir wollen endlich lieben!1) Yeterince sevdik.2) Artık nefret etmek istiyoruz.3) Yeterince nefret ettik.4) Artık sevmek istiyoruz.

Aşk; hayatın tümü demek değildir.

If the word doesn’t exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn’t exist.

Re-vision–the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction–is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival....