Quotes by Sorin Titel

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In the existence of each of us are decisive readings. They definitely mark us. We live and write under their star. It's hard to say how we would have been if at some point a certain book hadn't called into question everything we thought we knew about literature.

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Ideal reading: the reader's eye should remain fresh, the pleasure of reading unaltered, but she, the reading, should also offer him satisfactions that can only be reached through erudition and high initiation.

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This is what literature has told us and will continue to tell us: about how man remains, no matter what happens to him, the most important reality on earth! His great passing is recorded by art. One man, unlike any other, always unique.

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"The writer - writes Marin Preda in Impossible Return - is interested in what happens to people". It is hard to find another phrase that more precisely, and at the same time so convincingly, defines the writing profession. No other motivation, no matter how justified it may seem at first sight, can substitute for this interest in the human being... If the writer's attention goes, however, elsewhere, if he happens to be disinterested in the fate of man, how will he answer the question why is he writing?...

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The literature book should not be a substitute for other readings: that is not its purpose. A novel cannot and should not replace a documentary book, it should not be read "in place" of a history book, it should not replace information literature or the press.

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There is, there must be, a percentage of detachment in reading a book. It is not read only to inform you about this and that thing, it is not read only to clarify more or less immediate questions, it is also read for the sake of immersing yourself in the imagined world, recreated by the writer, and to let yourself be carried away by the "magic of the story". We cannot escape, if we are true readers, the sweet voice of Scheherazade...

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The book of literature has turned into a kind of guidance, in which blind trust is invested. It is no longer read, so to speak, disinterestedly. We can only subscribe to this grave approach and enjoy the almost hopeless esteem with which literature is beginning to be surrounded...

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One reads less and less out of the desire to escape to other worlds. It could be said that, almost contrary to such a trend, today the reader wants to remain, through reading, as much as possible in the world he is in, out of the desire to know it as well as possible, to penetrate as deeply as possible its laws that governs it. Moreover, immediate answers are sought…

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There has been a lot of talk lately about that ideal reader who would turn into a kind of collaborator of the author, that reader capable of filling in, with the help of his imagination, the blank spaces between the lines of a book. A reader who first and foremost achieves an active reading, far removed from the lazy reading of the man comfortably settled in his armchair, waiting for everything to be given to him ready, without beating his head too much...

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Paraphrasing a statement that belongs to Tudor Vianu - "I'm afraid of the man who doesn't like music" - ...I would try to say that I am terribly afraid of the man who has never read a book in his life .

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Contempt and indifference towards books also implicitly means contempt towards man, towards his contradictory, complicated existence...

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A world not passed through books, not shaped by them, not influenced by their letters, doesn't it look different than the one discovered after reading? Justified question, since the passion for reading is usually born at an age when we still don't know much about the life around us. Because reading, in fact, precedes knowledge and, of course, influences it... being our first guide, we could say that through it we discover the complexity and beauty of life, its greatness or tragedy...

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I have often wondered how the world is reflected in the eyes of a man who has never read a book in his life...

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The heroes of great writers - only they have such a privilege! - they enter our world, they live among us, they are part of the people we have known.

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Despite the realistic tradition of European art, one cannot, in fact, speak of absolute realism. Such realism, when it existed (expressed through works devoid of any artistic value), is nothing but the fruit of a passive attitude towards reality... Now, an authentic artist is always driven by the desire to submit reality to his will , he actually has a conquering psychology.

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Relived, life really begins to take on meaning and meaning; chance ceases to govern facts. What seemed desperate and haphazard is placed in a new and definitive light...

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Seeking to remember as accurately as possible the time that has passed, the events you have passed through in life - both the good and the bad being the main character in some "stories" exactly reconstructed from memory, here is an action which can sometimes also have a therapeutic character...