#literature

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#force #freedom #heart #interference #intrusion

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#believe #day #every #every day #four

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#good #literature #lived #more #people

Insane" es un problema mental congénito, y se considera conveniente tratarlo con una terapia especializada. En cambio, "Lunatic" se refiere a una pérdida temporal del juivio debido al efecto de la luna. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#literature-quotes

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#curse #deep #literature #snare #toil

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#life #literature #more #terrible

There is only one school of literature - that of talent. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#only #school #talent

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#arts #collision #complicated #literature #music

Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following. ↗

— R.W. and Rev. Joseph Fort Newton

#metaphor #age

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past. The Last Generation ↗

— James Elroy Flecker

#literature #nostalgia #age