Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Quote by Josef Skvorecky

Topics: Literature Quotes, Lovers Quotes

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck...

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck...

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced...

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced...

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced...

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced...

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity...

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity...

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on...

I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness,...

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness,...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he...

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher:...

This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher:...

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the...

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever...

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever...