Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome…

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam…

— Edward Abbey

“I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred…

— Edward Abbey

“Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.”

— Roland Barthes

“Running, like literature, like arts, helps you to remember and re-experience some of the impossible strangeness of what it means to be who and…

— Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

— Joe Wright

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

— Alison Lurie

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than…

— M. G. Vassanji

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

— Northrop Frye

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

— George Bernard Shaw

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own…

— Joel Edgerton

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about…

— Jonathan Frakes

“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?”

— Hugh Howey

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

— Herta Muller

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

— Shirley Hazzard