The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles DickensTag: literature
I begin with writing the first
sentence—and trusting to Almighty
God for the second.
Tag: literature 18th-century
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
Italo CalvinoTag: literature
Understand is not the word; you are right, you can never really 'understand' about someone, anyone, even yourself. It is best to believe in them as human; feel that they are alive like you and need warmth, concern.
Rudy WiebeTag: literature wiebe
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
Robert BurtonTag: words reading books literature
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel ButlerTag: words reading books freedom literature
The Meadow... Only one of them succeeded in making a life here... He weathered. Before a backdrop of natural beauty, he lived a life from which everything was taken but a place. He lived so close to the real world it almost let him in.
James GalvinTag: literature
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Oscar WildeTag: humor reading literature algernon
Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.
Jeanette WintersonTag: writing literature language
So long as there is gold underneath, who cares about the dust on top? Literature! That old whore! We must try to dose her with mercury and pills and clean her out from top to bottom, she has been so ultra-screwed by filthy pricks!
Gustave FlaubertTag: literature
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