Hispanic Literature Quotes

Science has eliminated distance. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows. ~ Northrop Frye

I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers ... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature ... I've had enough of journos. ~ Brooke Fraser

Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes, which then found covert expression in the supernatural tale. 'There is no need today to resort to the devil [or to posthumous reverie] in order to speak of excessive sexual desire, and none to resort to vampires in order to designate the attraction exerted by corpses: psychoanalysis, and the literature which is directly or indirectly inspired by it, deal with these matters in undisguised terms. The themes of fantastic literature have become, literally, the very themes of the psychological investigations of the last fifty years. ~ Howard Kerr

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. ~ Ken Kesey

My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature. ~ H.P. Lovecraft

I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that. ~ Bell Hooks

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. ~ Michael Crichton

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree. ~ Honore De Balzac

I know surely you're thinking of me, for
I am strange, and you're kind to the stranger ~ Zubair Ahsan

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. ~ Andrew Bird

It's very hard to believe that I'm feeling this. It's like I've been dead all these years and suddenly now...in a matter of days and hours, I came to life. I don't want to die again! ~ Dan Skinner

That is the greatness of literature, and its paradox, that in reading about fictional others we end up reading about ourselves. Sometimes this unwitting self-examination provokes smiles of recognition, while other times, ... it provokes shudders of worry and denial. Either way, we are the wiser, we are existentially thicker. ~ Yann Martel

This view of literature as an aesthetic object that could make us 'better people' is linked to a certain idea of the subject, to what theorists have come to call 'the liberal subject', the individual defined not by a social situation and interests but by an individual subjectivity (rationality and morality) conceived as essentially free of social determinants. ~ Jonathan Culler

Literature for me ... tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader. ~ Geoff Ryman

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. ~ Dale Carnegie

It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager. ~ Steve Kerr

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. ~ Eric Hoffer

Life every now and then becomes literature ... as if life had been made and not happened. ~ Norman Maclean

Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In Australia, you looked out and saw the possible, the spaces, the maybes... ~ Tim Winton

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage. ~ Erica Jong

He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood. ~ Carson McCullers

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. ~ Edward Young

If creative fiction writing is a process of translating an abstraction into the concrete, there are three possible grades of such writing: translating an old (known) abstraction (theme or thesis) through the medium of old fiction means (that is, characters, events or situations used before for that same purpose, that same translation) -- this is most of the popular trash; translating an old abstraction through new, original fiction means -- this is most of the good literature; creating a new, original abstraction and translating it through new, original means. This, as far as I know, is only me -- my kind of fiction writing. ~ Ayn Rand

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. ~ Andre Gide

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. ~ Leopold Von Ranke

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest. ~ Victor Hugo

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to. ~ Stephen King

Isn't this just fun?" Dylan whispered, not quite daring to hope the hound had come to the same conclusion.
"That depends," Tracker replied. "Is that all you want?"
"No," he breathed. There was so much more he yearned for. He could almost understand why his friend in the tower used to risk falling in love. ~ Aldrea Alien

The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly, keenly, and boldly at life, and write about real flesh and blood. It is high time for a brand-new arena for literature, high time for some bold fighters to charge headlong into battle! ~ Lu Xun