#literature

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#literature #reading #literature

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#literature

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#fiction #literature #veronica-roth #literature

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#central #dead #enjoy #how #i

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#across #barriers #been #being #both

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#aware #been #culture #function #high

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#brought #country #least #literature #out

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#achievement #among #asserted #commonly #english

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#dreams

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#beauty #dejan-stojanovic #express #expression #feel