Spanish Literature Quotes

I love Javier Marias; I love his novel 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.'

I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes.

To be blunt, I feel like lyricism in Spanish is of a different quality than English. You can get really poetic in Spanish, but I feel like if you do that in English, you risk sounding cheesy. In Spanish, it's never that. It's always this deep, passionate, beautiful imagery; it's painted different, a different color.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

A wood carving of Quixote on his nag Rocinante graced my childhood home.

Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft.

I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'

I like a lot of Spanish language writers. I really love Javier Marias.