Books Quote by B.S. Murthy Download Open image ““I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.”” — B.S. Murthy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Classical literature English literature Indian-authors Indian-fiction Literary-novel Literary-quote Literature Literature-quotes
“It was evident to me then that I existed in the same manner as all other men, that I must grow old, that I… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country.” — M.T Anderson Copy Share Image
“When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.” — A. Saleh Copy Share Image
“As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they?… — Giles Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago have been… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Only when, years later, I touched for the first time my lover's body did I realize that literature could sometimes fall short of the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“It is its sanctification of the base human instincts that makes Islam the menace of all mankind” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“If not for 02 October being the national holiday, would any notice Gandhi’s birthday coming and going; I bet none remembers in which year… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiar characteristic of people that for some inexplicable reason they feel nice about themselves when they cite their acquaintance with the… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the dogmas of… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“It’s not the hurt that others cause to us that counts, but our response to it that matters; if a positive outlook helps us… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“In the human mind, doubt has a faster rate of growth than even hope, and we know what that meant for poor Desdemona.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“It’s the weird fate of illicit love to cohabit with lies. But what a paradox it is that a noble sentiment like love needs… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“Material means that hide man's meanness fail to reflect his moral richness.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“Novels expose man to the nuances of life through the thought process of their protagonists to form the foundation for its understanding and thus… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“Why is life hard on some while being soft on others? It would appear as if it feels a monotonous regimen would bore people… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
