EDMONDO DE AMICIS – Un tale, tempo fa, scrisse contro la pessima abitudine di moltissimi italiani, i quali benché siano dediti alla lettura e possano spendere, non comprano mai un libro. Le cagioni di quest’abitudine di —> Prosegui lettura >>
CARLO DOSSI – No, mi diceva jer l’altro un bizzarrìssimo amico, tu non vedrài mai nelle vetrine un mio libro. Se avessi a scrìvere, scriverèi per divertire mè solo, non volendo ingannare nè gli altri —> Prosegui lettura >>
GEORG BRANDES – A few years ago several European newspapers offered prizes for a list of the best one hundred books for a first-class library. The answers poured in: the Bible and “Robinson Crusoe,” Homer —> Prosegui lettura >>
BOYD WINCHESTER — It is the pleasure, and not the profit, spiritual or temporal, of reading which most requires to be preached to the ordinary reader. All such pleasure ministers to the development of much —> Prosegui lettura >>
FELISBERTO HERNÁNDEZ – He decidido leer un cuento mío, no sólo para saber si soy un buen intérprete de mis propios cuentos, sino para saber también otra cosa: si he acertado en la materia que elegí —> Prosegui lettura >>
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER — (§ 290) Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with riches. The poor man is restrained by poverty and need: labor occupies his thoughts, and takes the place of knowledge. But rich men —> Prosegui lettura >>
VIRGINIA WOOLF – In the first place, I want to emphasise the note of interrogation at the end of my title. Even if I could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply only to —> Prosegui lettura >>
VIRGINIA WOOLF – There is a sentence in Dr. Johnson’s Life of Gray which might well be written up in all those rooms, too humble to be called libraries, yet full of books, where the pursuit —> Prosegui lettura >>
EDITH WHARTON – That “diffusion of knowledge” commonly classed with steam-heat and universal suffrage in the category of modern improvements, has incidentally brought about the production of a new vice — the vice of reading. No —> Prosegui lettura >>
KOIZUMI YAKUMO / LAFCADIO HEARN – The test of a great book is whether we want to read it only once or more than once. Any really great book we want to read the second time —> Prosegui lettura >>
KOIZUMI YAKUMO / LAFCADIO HEARN – I wish to keep my promise regarding a series of lectures relating to literary life and work, to be given independently of texts or authorities, and to represent, as far as —> Prosegui lettura >>
MANUEL DE LA REVILLA – Aunque a primera vista parezca que el público es meramente pasivo y no interviene, por tanto, directamente en la producción literaria, una reflexión más atenta muestra todo lo contrario, y —> Prosegui lettura >>
ROBERTO ARLT — Me escribe un lector: «Me interesaría muchísimo que Ud. escribiera algunas notas sobre los libros que deberían leer los jóvenes, para que aprendan y se formen un concepto claro, amplio, de la —> Prosegui lettura >>
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