Books Quote by Milan Kundera Download Open image “The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question,” — Milan Kundera ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novelists Reader Teach Truth Seeking World
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that the novel… — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio Copy Share Image
“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“This profusion of questions, exclamations, and tales is the new version of the Society. Its members are spread all over the world, but they… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“any book in the world - if there was only one way to read and understand it, what would be the point of reading… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“A writer's task is to interpret his world as he sees it, if not to make it understood, at least to make it understandable.” — Leonard Walker Copy Share Image
“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world.” — after Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“when we are in the world of reading it helps us to think in the way we wish......” — Shebapmannil Copy Share Image
“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the… — Milan Kundera 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
